Breaking Ground: Bringing high-speed internet to every home in Kentucky
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4.6 • 8.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Roughly 200,000 Kentucky households lack internet access or are “underserved,” according to Meghan Sandfoss, executive director of the state’s Office of Broadband Development. It’s her job to open digital doors for all those residents, rural and otherwise — a tricky task that involves coordinating federal, state and local offices as well as internet service providers, nonprofits and engineers. In this episode, we’ll upack the process of hooking up homes to a fiber-optic network, including getting local buy-in, developing detailed maps and navigating environmental challenges.
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| 1:06.0 | Our series Breaking Ground on the program today, |
| 1:10.0 | from American public media. |
| 1:12.0 | This is market plans. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Risdall. It is Tuesday, today, August the 27th. Good as always, to have you long everybody. |
| 1:31.0 | We're going to continue today with our series Breaking Ground. We were in |
| 1:34.8 | Catawba County, North Carolina yesterday at a manufacturing plant run by a |
| 1:38.8 | company called Prismian. It's one of only three companies that meet federal standards for domestically |
| 1:44.8 | manufactured optical fiber and it is gearing up to get way busier because one of the |
| 1:50.6 | explicit goals of the bipartisan infrastructure law |
| 1:54.0 | is to connect every home in America to high-speed internet. |
| 1:58.0 | We anticipate, yes, being busy, and we're big big on broadband and we say only fiber's future proofs. |
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