Officials with Comcast, the cable television company , announced Tuesday that the company will be offering broadband Internet service, digital TV and phone service on the west bank of St. John the Baptist Parish. Comcast currently provides those services in the LaPlace area on the parish's east bank. Currently, broadband Internet service is offered by AT&T. in parts of...
Officials with Comcast, the cable television company , announced Tuesday that the company will be offering broadband Internet service, digital TV and phone service on the west bank of St. John the Baptist Parish.
Comcast currently provides those services in the LaPlace area on the parish's east bank.
Currently, broadband Internet service is offered by AT&T. in parts of the west bank closest to the parish courthouse in Edgard and near the Veterans Memorial Bridge between Gramercy and Wallace.
Comcast representative Patricia Collins told the Parish Council at a meeting in Edgard Tuesday, that work will begin on the infrastructure needed to provide the service, immediately, and said later that the the residents could be online by July.
The major hurdle preventing cable companies from providing service to the area, which has a population of about 3,000 people, was crossing the river.
But Comcast piggy-backed with Reserve-based RTC to string fiber optic cables across the bridge to the west bank last year. Comcast wanted the link so it could connect its LaPlace and Houma networks. RTC officials said then that the crossing would allow them to serve the Vacherie community in St. James Parish.