Flume Internet takes aim at closing NYC digital divide

Flume's goal is to provide fast, affordable internet connections to at least 600,000 low-income residents in New York City, including to those in public housing. Flume was co-founded by Brandon Gibson and Prashanth Vijay. Flume is targeting all five New York City boroughs and also plans to deploy its broadband service in East Hartford, Connecticut in the spring of next year to provide fiber-based access to an additional 25,000 households. For public housing in the New York area, Flume Access' internet speed provides symmetrical speeds up of 200 Mbps. For non-public housing and the greater service area, Flume is looking at provisioning symmetrical speeds of 1-Gig. Flume, which is currently in the seed stage of its funding, plans to do its own fiber installs.