COMMUNICATION: INDICATORS

1. Teleconferencing Availability and Use

We are not aware of any group teleconferencing sites available to the public in the KEYS towns. (The schools do have teleconferencing for students enrolled in some courses.) We have no way to measure the teleconferencing done on personal computers.

2. Public Access Cable TV Availability and Use

• York has one public access cable TV channel, via Time Warner. They have a broadcasting studio in the public library, and Board of Selectmen meetings are broadcast live. They also have scrolling messages.
• Kittery tapes their Town Council meetings, and they are broadcast at a later time on the Portsmouth/Kittery public access TV channel vis Comcast.
• Eliot and South Berwick have no public access cable TV channels. They are served by Comcast, but this service is not in their contracts. Eliot has a town committee looking into ways to establish a channel.

3. High Speed Internet available on all Roads & Use of the Internet

Some roads in South Berwick do not have access to broadband.

See a sample census data graph from Boston, below, and see www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p23-208.pdf for a report on "Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2003."

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4. Cell phone coverage

Cell phone coverage is generally good in the KEYS region, but there are many dead spots.

 

Sample from Boston below http://www.tbf.org/indicators/technology/indicators.asp?id=290#