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But a dispute between the state and cable provider Accelecom threatens access for Kentuckians who rely on the network. The ...
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” ...
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 ...
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.
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.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's auditor is investigating the state's troubled broadband project, but the report won't be finished before lawmakers must decide whether to keep funding a venture ...
On Monday, Aug. 31, Kentucky leaders kicked off their plans to roll out broadband Internet service throughout the state as part of a three-year public-private partnership.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kentucky officials have agreed to lease 315 miles of fiber-optic cables as they continue to seek ways to lower the cost of a statewide broadband project.