This week on Word of Mouth, we're continuing our series on the North Country by answering a listener's question about access to high-speed internet. You can send us your questions about New Hampshire by emailing us or submitting a question online . Steve Knox stood in his driveway, craning his neck at a telephone pole connected to his house in Albany, NH. The wire at the very top of every telephone pole carries electricity, while the lowermost wire is owned by whoever owns the pole, usually a telephone company. In between those two lies everything else: cable, internet, and competing phone companies. “See the orange?” Steve points to a black cable marked with orange paint. “It’s the third line up. That’s the fiber.” Fiber is the type of line that can handle blindingly fast internet. Neither Steve nor his neighbors, though, can sign up for a fiber connection to their home. “I don’t believe it goes to any homes here,” Steve says, “but there it is! Somebody ran that line up there. So why