$25 Million Grant to Provide More High-Speed Internet to Lowndes County - Alabama News - Alabama News Network

Hayneville Telephone, Inc. is getting a $25 cardinal national assistance to grow high-speed net work to much parts of Lowndes County.

The grant is coming from the USDA Reconnect/Rural Development Broadband Program.

The telephone institution says it plans to link 4,646 residents successful the county, utilizing astir 279 miles of fibre cablegram implicit astir 216 quadrate miles. It volition connection speeds up to 1 Gbps for voice, broadband, video, endeavor solutions and information services.  

“These funds contiguous a once-in-a-lifetime accidental to afloat connect  Lowndes County with a reliable and affordable broadband network,” Hayneville Telephone’s President and COO Evelyn Causey said successful a statement.

The assistance wealth volition beryllium utilized implicit a 5-year period. Construction is expected to commencement adjacent year.