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Kentucky's Statewide Broadband on Track for 2019-20
The Kentucky Wired plan has been delayed and survived a near-death experience during the 2018 legislative session, but the “middle mile” broadband network plan now intends to roll out within 18 to 24 months with its original intent and focus – putting gigabit-speed internet service nodes into every commonwealth county. Originally, the 120-county Kentucky Wired program was to be complete by September 2018 at a cost of around $324 million, most of that coming from Australia’s Macquarie Capital in a public-private partnership deal.