February 28, 2003

5-College Consortium Seeks to Buy Its Own Fiber Cable

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Who is looking: Five Colleges Inc., the consortium comprising Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, all in rural western Massachusetts.

What they are looking for: To buy existing and new fiber-optic cable and install it to form a "ring" connecting the five institutions, with a "leg" connection from the ring to Springfield, Mass., to the south. The five institutions expect to take advantage of the current downturn in the

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