Time Warner Communications may soon be installing cable in the town of Niles.
The Niles Town Board unanimously resolved Thursday night to grant Time Warner permission to start transmission line construction for phone and high speed Internet
The town's waiver request allowing the project goes before the New York State Public Service Commission on July 16.
A public hearing on the franchise agreement can be held after that date, which the town has tentatively scheduled for Aug. 6, its next regular board meeting.
The town map now shows seven houses in the northwest corner using Time Warner service and a cluster of homes in the northeast corner that Verizon Communications was going to offer its FIOS service.
Time Warner wants to put lines in along the western Skaneateles lakefront from the Cortland County town of Scott through Sempronius to Fire Lane 13 in Niles.
The company encourages residents along the lakefront to petition for the line to come through.
That section was the most probable area for the service because installation requires 20 customers per mile.
Town Supervisor Rick Slagle said that the line would be strung on the National Grid utility lines using existing poles. Time Warner has already obtained right-of-way clearance from National Grid.
Slagle also mentioned a joint project is in the making with Niles, Scipio and Genoa to provide broadband service through Clarity Connect to their residents.
The town's waiver request allowing the project goes before the New York State Public Service Commission on July 16.
A public hearing on the franchise agreement can be held after that date, which the town has tentatively scheduled for Aug. 6, its next regular board meeting.
The town map now shows seven houses in the northwest corner using Time Warner service and a cluster of homes in the northeast corner that Verizon Communications was going to offer its FIOS service.
Time Warner wants to put lines in along the western Skaneateles lakefront from the Cortland County town of Scott through Sempronius to Fire Lane 13 in Niles.
The company encourages residents along the lakefront to petition for the line to come through.
That section was the most probable area for the service because installation requires 20 customers per mile.
Town Supervisor Rick Slagle said that the line would be strung on the National Grid utility lines using existing poles. Time Warner has already obtained right-of-way clearance from National Grid.
Slagle also mentioned a joint project is in the making with Niles, Scipio and Genoa to provide broadband service through Clarity Connect to their residents.
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str8*arrow wrote on Sep 1, 2009 6:11 PM:
str8*arrow wrote on Sep 1, 2009 6:08 PM:
townofniles wrote on Jul 6, 2009 5:26 PM:
I was excited at first that we may be getting it, but once reading further, it looks like only people on the lake will be getting it. This is crazy! Like Ufreaks wrote, there is Verizon Fios all around us, and now they will also be able to get cable, and we are still in the dark.
The people that do have internet options, are going to be getting even more and we will still be in the ice age.
The joys of country living! "
Ufreaks wrote on Jul 6, 2009 3:21 PM:
I guess I'll just keep Direct TV, and the NFL Sunday ticket! "
3414 wrote on Jul 6, 2009 10:11 AM:
guitardude62 wrote on Jul 6, 2009 8:30 AM: