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LPOSD: Broadband switchover a success

Lee Hughes Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 10 months AGO
by Lee Hughes Staff Writer
| February 24, 2015 6:00 AM

SANDPOINT — So far, so good.

That was the word from Lake Pend Oreille School District officials Monday, after making a successful Internet broadband transition Monday from Internet providers with the troubled Idaho Education Network to the district’s new provider, Post Falls-based Ednetics.

“We have a few more things we’re doing after school’s out to finalize the transition,” LPOSD Director of Technology Randy Wittwer, said Monday. “But everything is going good so far.”

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