Broadband expansion announced for 16 Kentucky counties

Center for Rural Development President and CEO Lonnie Lawson announced a $30.7 million project that will expand broadband access to approximately 33,000 households across 16 counties and 196 communities in Southern and Eastern Kentucky. The broadband expansion project will include: 

• 33 publicly and commercially available CenterLinks Access Nodes (CANs), used to expand the KY Wired statewide middle-mile to create a local-middle mile infrastructure
• 15 wireless towers within the 16 counties as well as 40 additional towers deployed outside the scope of the grant funding
• Construction of 124 miles of fiber (100 miles for CANs and 24 miles to bring towers on-net)
• Unlimited bandwidth between network nodes, allowing for any subscribed bandwidth out to end-users