While generally endorsing a long list of proposed last- mile broa...

offering last mile proposals with ubiquitous coverage -- coverage of the areas both ‘in town’ (if needed) and in the rural areas surrounding the more populated municipalities,” he wrote. “Wisconsin does not need more providers just serving the county seats - it needs providers serving the entire counties.” Doyle singled out Hilbert Communications and OneProspect for proposing projects in generally rural counties that incorporate both fiber builds and wireless coverage. He also noted a project by the City of Madison to use a fiber backbone plus community wireless and one by the International Broadband Electric Communications to use broadband over power line technology to reach end users in several rural locations in conjunction with some electric cooperatives. The governor endorsed Marquette Adams Telephone Cooperative and Reedsburg Utility Commission proposals that extend fiber into areas adjacent to the telcos’ existing service areas. CCI Systems proposes to extend a fiber/coax hybrid network to certain communities in northern Wisconsin, he said. Doyle also noted middle-mile proposals that get the state’s backing have been proposed by the Wisconsin Department of Administration to extend fiber to an additional 82 educational facilities and 385 libraries that don’t have fiber, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents to create a Metropolitan Unified Fiber Network, a collaborative metro fiber network serving education, health, government and non-profit anchor institutions in the greater Madison metropolitan area, Central WI Communications d/b/a Solarus to connect on fiber rings a number of central Wisconsin communities and Kenosha County to build a system that will address public safety needs and backhaul opportunities with a combined fiber and wireless build-out proposal consistent with long range planning in southeast Wisconsin.