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Hundreds of thousands of households in Erie and Niagara Counties may be eligible for a federally-funded program created to make online access more affordable. Congressman Brian Higgins, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and Buffalo Common Councilmember Mitch Nowakowski met in one of Buffalo’s more digitally underserved neighborhoods Friday to encourage families to check whether they qualify for the FCC Affordable Connectivity Program.
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Erie County is actively talking with home and business internet providers about using the planned ErieNet backbone system to provide “last mile” web services to the large sections of the county with limited or no service.
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Large parts of urban and rural Erie County are closer to having high-speed broadband for residences and businesses.Broadband is a big issue: for Buffalo…