East Central Vermont
Community Fiber Network

Welcome to the East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network's public website.

ECFiber In the News
Find links to important stories about ECFiber on our page.

Stories from the Community
See a selection of stories about the need for this project from members of our communities.

Pre-Register to indicate your interest and to show your support for the project. You can see up-to-the-minute pre-registration status at the bottom of this page.

Upcoming Meetings

The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 7pm, Oakes Hall, Rm. 110, Vermont Law School, South Royalton.

The monthly Governing Board meetings are open to the public and are a very good place to get the most up-to-date information. Meeting dates are listed above.

Project Status - Winter 2010

On August 14 ECFiber submitted our application for $64.9 million in loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service, for funds appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“stimulus”). The date for notice of awards was originally scheduled for early November 2009. As of January 15 2010, we have not heard from the RUS. As soon as we know something, we will send out an update. In the meantime, we have been moving ahead with every aspect of the project that does not require funding.

Senator Patrick Leahy has been one of the foremost supporters of this legislation and of ECFiber. ECF’s application, we estimate, is by itself, two-thirds of the entire amount applied for by all parties in the state of Vermont. Our application has also been well-supported by the State’s Office of Economic Stimulus and Recovery.

Meanwhile, our engineering firm, Atlantic Engineering Group, is beginning the process of “mapping” the fiber runs, by surveying all the poles that will be attached. This demonstrates their confidence that our loan application will succeed and that financing will be closed on schedule.

To get a detailed update of the progress of the project, please feel free to attend a Governing Board meeting, held the second Tuesday of each month. Be sure to check the website before you come, as meetings are occasionally cancelled if there is no business to conduct.

ECFiber Trucks Are Rolling

Atlantic Engineering Group has begun mapping the
32,000+ poles in the ECFiber Service Area.

Support the Project

If you represent a community organization, health care or social service agency, police or fire department or other "community anchor institution", please consider sending a letter of support to be included with our application. Click Support the Project the left to download a sample letter.

Pre-Registration Status

The graph below shows the current status of pre-registrations by town.

Disclaimer: The data used to generate this graph is constantly changing, and reflects an approximation of the current status of pre-registrations. Every effort is made to make it accurate, but there may be errors.