Kansas Provider Kwikom Gets Going on Fiber Deployment, Partially Grant-Funded

Kwikom--a broadband provider based in Kansas that also serves some markets in Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma--has begun work on fiber deployments in several Kansas markets. Deployments in some of these markets were funded, in part, through a state broadband program and, in part, by funding provided by local governments. The total investment will be $12 million. Over 7,000 homes and businesses will be reached. The markets that will be partially grant-funded include Pomona, Quenemo (KS), and over 20 square miles of rural area between Ottawa and Quenemo. A Kwikom said that $787,000 in funding for those projects came from the Kansas Capital Projects Fund (CPF). In addition, Franklin county and the cities of Pomona and Quenemo contributed a total of $16,000 to project costs.