PORTLAND, Maine — The city of South Portland is scheduled to announce early next week a partnership with Great Works Internet to build out high-speed fiber-optic Internet for residential and business customers in the city.
Mark Robinson, who handles publicity for the Portland-based Great Works Internet, wrote in a news release that the city has scheduled an event Monday to announce the partnership.
GWI recently announced a similar project in Rockport. The South Portland project would be several times larger. Rockport has a population of about 3,330; South Portland is home to about 25,000 people.
Robinson wrote in a separate email that GWI Chief Executive Officer Fletcher Kittredge, an advocate for municipal partnerships to build out “last-mile” connections to the state’s Three Ring Binder fiber-optic network, is scheduled to attend the event Monday.
The South Portland network would offer gigabit-per-second speeds, comparable to those in Rockport. In more common units of computer memory storage, that means the ability to transfer about 125 megabytes of information per second, both for uploads and downloads.
A news conference about the new fiber-optic network plan is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday.