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Breaking Ground: Here’s what universal broadband access could look like

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4.68.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What if every American household and business had access to high-speed internet? That’s what the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, a federally funded project, aims to accomplish. As part of our “Breaking Ground” series, we visit a town in Kentucky that’s had universal fiber-optic internet connections since 2014, thanks to a cable utilities cooperative and Great Recession-era stimulus funding. Could McKee be a model for what the U.S. might look like if the BEAD program achieves its goal?

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And on the third day, they went to McKee, Kentucky.

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From American public media, today 28 August. Good as always to have you along everybody. We have been talking these

1:25.7

past two days about high-speed internet for our series breaking ground. That's as the

1:31.3

federal government rolls out the 42 billion dollar bead

1:34.7

program that's broadband equity access and deployment part of the

1:39.2

bipartisan infrastructure law and we have focused on the supply chain.

1:44.0

Fibers future proofs, these cables that I've showed you that we've made today,

1:48.0

we're making those to be able to survive outside for decades.

1:52.0

And the behind the scenes work that the state government in Frankfurt, Kentucky is doing with the feds to get the money out the door.

1:58.0

There's a gentleman that works for the state government here who has coined a phrase that I love and he's

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talking about the program he says internet for all means every hood and every

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holler and we're going to wrap things up today in a place that sticks out for being ahead of the curve.

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