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But a dispute between the state and cable provider Accelecom threatens access for Kentuckians who rely on the network. The ...
The KentuckyWired project that was supposed to deliver high-speed Internet access to all 120 counties in the state by this year has been plagued by cost overruns of nearly $100 million and will ...
The broadband system is scheduled to be done in the eastern part of the state in the spring and across Kentucky in 2018. ... The project, Kentucky Wired, will boost Internet speeds.
The project to build a high-speed Internet network across the state could collapse if lawmakers don’t iron out where funding is coming from. Kentucky’s Ambitious Broadband Project Hinges on ...
In 2015, the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority financed the project to install a fiber-optic broadband system on utility poles by issuing $290 million of municipal bonds.
In 2015, the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority financed the project to install a fiber-optic “middle mile” broadband system on utility poles by issuing $232 million of senior tax ...
Kentucky Wired, the ambitious statewide broadband project begun by former Gov. Steve Beshear, faces a 39 percent shortfall in annual revenue needed to make bond payments because of a “tainted” ...
FRANKFORT — A bill to limit the state's partner in the KentuckyWired project from competing with private broadband providers in already-served areas advanced through a House committee Thursday ...
The goal is to use the infrastructure to expand the project to get broadband to all of the Commonwealth's 120 counties. Once complete, Kentucky Wired could make the state the first in the nation ...
"It's a greenfield project," Hicks said. "We have never done this before." Hicks said the federal government guidance on broadband calls for faster download and upload speeds than are Kentucky's ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Frustrated with repeated delays costing taxpayers millions of dollars, the Kentucky Senate has voted to effectively end a project that would bring high-speed internet ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — In October 2015, state officials in Kentucky signed a contract to install 3,000 miles of fiber optic cable to bring high-speed internet access to all 120 counties. Today ...