TDS Telecom this week announced it will expand its fiber to the home (FTTH) footprint in Maine. Beginning this year, the service provider will deploy FTTH to approximately 21,000 addresses in the state.
Including more than two dozen communities in Somerset and Franklin counties, and in addition to the previously announced town of Hampden, municipalities included in the expansion are as follows:
- Athens
- Avon
- Bigelow Township
- Brighton Plantation
- Cambridge
- Carrabassett Valley
- Concord Township
- Coplin Plantation
- Embden
- Eustis/Stratton
- Freeman
- Harmony
- Hartland
- Highland Plantation
- Kingfield
- Lexington Township
- Madrid
- Mercer
- New Portland
- New Vineyard
- Norridgewock
- North Anson
- Palmyra
- Phillips
- Ripley
- Rome
- Salem
- Smithfield
- Solon
- St. Albans
- Strong
- Warren
- Weld
- Wellington
- West Gardiner
- Wyman Township
Once deployed, the FTTH infrastructure will support the delivery of 2-Gbps internet service to residential customers. Other offerings will include TDS TV+ and phone service.
Business customers will be able to opt for 10-Gbps dedicated connections as well as TDS’s hosted VoIP communications and TDS TV+.
The FTTH build-out will leverage both TDS’s own funds, as well as money from the Alternative Connect America program.
TDS has operated in Maine since 1971.
