Broadband Reports put a post up yesterday about Maine having the slowest Internet speeds in the New England region. I only had dial-up service for the one year I lived in Portland, but in a corner of my brain I was pretty sure I remembered seeing a statistic then about the state having the most fiber optic cabling of any in the country. I ran some Google searches and here’s the closest I found to a similar stat:
“[Maine] has more than 110,000 miles of fiber-optic cable and 100 percent digital phone switching technology in place. Maine leads the country with telecommunications infrastructure…”
Just goes to show that having the right infrastructure doesn’t guarantee high-speed Internet. I wonder how much of that dark fiber (in Maine and elsewhere) might get lit now that TV on the Web will drive more demand.