Ten years ago, the story was getting any Internet service west of Mount Monadnock, up the Connecticut River Valley, or north of the notches - now it’s getting broadband there. The New York Times looks at the issue in northeast Vermont, but the news hook (Verizon dumping its landlines) applies to New Hampshire, too.

On the other hand, connections keep getting better in the "golden triangle" of southeast N.H. - not only are Comcast and AT&T preparing to take over bankrupt Adelphia, providing new cash for the extensive cable-modem network, but Verizon is expanding its fiber-optic FiOS network beyond the Mass. border towns, moving into Londonderry among other places (although it won’t use those glass cables to bring us TV until the legislature allows cable franchise agreements to be negotiated statewide, instead of town-by-town).