Infrastructure in Boston

Eversource Energy is the exclusive electricity distributor to the city, though due to deregulation, customers have a choice of electric generation companies. Natural gas is distributed by National Grid plc (originally KeySpan, the successor company to Boston Gas); only commercial and industrial customers may choose an alternate natural gas supplier.{{cite web |url=http://neaap.ncat.org/news/manews3.htm |title=Massachusetts News and Analysis |date=September 2003 |publisher=US Department of Health and Human Services – National Energy Affordability and Accessibility Project |accessdate=April 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201103608/http://neaap.ncat.org/news/manews3.htm |archivedate=December 1, 2009 }}

Municipal steam services are provided by Vicinity Energy, a spinoff of Veolia North America and its subsidiary Trigen Energy Corporation;{{cite web|url=http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1012294 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120703135218/http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1012294 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 3, 2012 |title=Menino urges pols to pass steam bill – Local & Regional |accessdate=July 20, 2007 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/07/after_new_york.html |title=After New York explosion, Menino pushes to regulate steam – Local News Updates – The Boston Globe |accessdate=July 20, 2007 | date=July 19, 2007}} which comprise the original assets of the defunct Boston Heating Company.{{cite web |url=http://www.energy.rochester.edu/trigen/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970209165722/http://www.energy.rochester.edu/trigen/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 9, 1997 |title=Trigen Energy Corporation |publisher=Energy.rochester.edu |accessdate=May 13, 2010 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.energy.rochester.edu/us/ma/boston/bhc/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980213123846/http://www.energy.rochester.edu/us/ma/boston/bhc/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 13, 1998 |title=Theodore Newton Vail and the Boston Heating Company, 1886–1890 |publisher=Energy.rochester.edu |accessdate=May 13, 2010 }}

Verizon, successor to New England Telephone, NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, and earlier, the Bell System, is the primary wired telephone service provider for the area. Phone service is also available from various national wireless companies. Cable television is available from Comcast and RCN, with broadband Internet access provided by the same companies in certain areas. A variety of DSL providers and resellers are able to provide broadband Internet over Verizon-owned phone lines.{{cite web |url=http://www.bostoncentral.com/towns/boston/utilities.php |title=Boston Utilities |year=2004 |publisher=Boston Central |accessdate=April 28, 2007}}

An independent Boston Internet Exchange is also located in Boston's financial distract on Summer Street.

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Water supply and sewage-disposal services are provided by the Boston Water and Sewer Commission.{{cite web |url=http://www.bwsc.org/tab_menus/6frameset1.htm |title=Background |year=2007 |publisher=Boston Water and Sewer Commission |accessdate=April 28, 2007| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070221004901/http://www.bwsc.org/tab_menus/6frameset1.htm| archivedate = February 21, 2007}} The Commission in turn purchases wholesale water and sewage disposal from the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. The city's water comes from the Quabbin Reservoir and the Wachusett Reservoir, which are about {{convert|65|mi|km|0}} and {{convert|35|mi|km|0}} west of the city respectively.{{cite press release |title=Your Drinking Water: Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, 2006 Drinking Water Report |publisher=Massachusetts Water Resources Authority |date=June 19, 2007 }} Boston is one of five cities in the country with tap water pure enough to be exempt from Environmental Protection Agency filtration requirements.{{cite web|url=http://www.flynote.com/n/3/603/whalerider/water.aspx|title=Pure Water Right on Tap|accessdate=June 7, 2011}}

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