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Wireless in New Salem? Pilot program has limited range, bugs to work out, but it's putting rural dwellers in high-speed world

BY RICHIE DAVIS RECORDER STAFF

Published on November 27, 2007

NEW SALEM -- There's been a glow on Main Street lately. It's a blue glow from laptops outdoors some evenings, in cars parked in front of the New Salem Library, and from residents like Bill Lafferty walking along the street trying to get reception from the wireless network that's begun a year-long test by Pioneer Valley Connect and Berkshire Connect.

Reader comments:

Around the same time the government subsidized electricity for our small towns.

By Jeff Tuesday, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:00 AM

Since when did it become the government's duty to provide "free" broadband internet access?

By JRC Tuesday, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:20 AM