It looks like a group of local investors may pick up where EarthLink left off.
This is good news, but more work is still needed to complete the network:
“We’re not anywhere near close to delivering a full service yet,” said local entrepreneur Richard A. Rasansky, who is on the board of the new company [that will take over the network]. “The network is not completed. It’s not so much a problem with how it’s built, it’s that it’s currently unbuilt.”