As it turns out, the Village of Sloan owns the land on which sits a cell tower. The owners of the tower pay rent to the village, and their contract is up for renewal. The tower people are now offering a package deal as part of the rent agreement. Apparently, they own Blue Wireless or vice versa, so in addition to cell service and handsets for the Board, they're offering three mobile data terminals for the fire department, telephone service for all three buildings along with 10/10 Mb Internet service.
In researching Blue Wireless, I could find no information about land line phone or Internet service, so I asked the mayor to try to find out who would be providing these services. The response to this question follows:
The provider would be Blue Wireless. They have a fiber pipeline through
level 3, and will be able to provide you with carrier grade dedicated
bandwidth for the internet connections. This is not normal consumer grade
internet with multiple people accessing nodes on a first-come demand
basis, but real, isolated connection, dedicated bandwidth. The fiber
backbone is located in Level 3’s switching facilities in downtown Buffalo.
Blue has a high speed microwave network that connects all their sites at
Gb speeds to two switch facilities for redundancy.
Well, that sounds mighty impressive, but what exactly does all that mean? It could very well just be gobbledy-goop salesman speak for all I know. The Village is currently using Time Warner Business Class for everything, including 10 Mb Internet, which just sucks. Even with one user online, it's next to impossible to even check email. Is there anything in that response that should reassure us that their 10 Mb/s service is less congested or faster than TWC's?
Thanks for the translation!