(Wahpeton)– Another lakes area community has opted to pull the plug on a study into the feasibility of starting up a municipal telecommunications utility.
The Wahpeton city council Monday voted to take no further action on continuing to the next phase of the study, consisting of a market analysis. The Arnolds Park and Okoboji city councils took similar action last week. The Spirit Lake city council has directed its representative on the Opportunity is Calling Committee to get an estimate on what it would cost to move on to the next phase of the study and report back.
A representative of the consulting firm that conducted the initial phase of the study told the committee recently that putting in the infrastructure to communities such as Arnolds Park, Okoboji, Wahpeton and Orleans would probably come with a high price tag due in part to how the communities are laid out and where they’re situated geographically.
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