Broadband Future

Lightwave - iTown Communications launches fiber-enabled broadband project in West Virginia: "July 18, 2005 Charleston, WV -- iTown Communications today initiated its 'West Virginia First,' an advanced broadband project for communities across West Virginia. Through the project, a fiber-optic Local Community Public-Use Network (LCPN) will directly connect to homes, businesses, schools, government offices, and other institutions in participating communities. iTown says its LCPN is purposely designed as an open network so that many different retail service providers can connect to deliver video, Internet, telephone, security, and other services, thereby bringing competition and choice to the region's consumers. The project's initial phase focuses on the state's Beckley-Bluefield and Wood County areas."