Door County, Wisconsin releases new study on broadband access

Results of a study and survey commissioned by the Door County Economic Development Corp. (DCEDC) on high-speed broadband internet service in the Wisconsin county confirmed what many have long thought — there isn't much broadband available, some areas have little or no internet access at all, and what there is often doesn't offer adequate service. The results provide a basis for developing a plan to make high-speed internet available across the Peninsula, DCEDC executive director Steve Jenkins said. "Those are the salient points that put some substance to what we suspected," Jenkins said. "It gives us the foundation to launch a countywide effort to bring broadband to as many places as we can as is economically feasible." The DCEDC formed a Broadband Study Committee that worked with broadband infrastructure engineering assessment consultants Finley Engineering and CCG Consulting on the study, which took six months to complete. The full report runs 215 pages, but a 26-page summary written in layman's terms is available on the DCEDC website.