$3 million to connect 3,000 Kansans through high-speed internet - WIBW

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - About $3 cardinal is headed to Kansas to link 3,000 residents, 255 businesses, 14 schools and 4 farms done high-speed internet.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Kansas State Director for Rural Development Christy Davis announced connected Thursday, Oct. 27, that the USDA volition supply a full of $3,066,752 to bring high-speed net entree to 2 counties successful the Sunflower State.

“High-speed net is indispensable for occurrence successful education, healthcare, and concern successful the twenty-first century,” Davis said. “Federal backing makes it imaginable for communications companies, similar Blue Valley Tele-Communications, to service our state’s agrarian communities.”

Davis indicated that Thursday’s announcement was portion of a larger nationalist announcement that included 24 states and 3 territories.

Davis noted that the assistance successful Kansas volition beryllium utilized to make a fiber-to-the-premises web to link 3,000 Kansans, 255 businesses, 14 acquisition facilities and 4 farms to high-speed net successful Marshall and Washington counties.

The USDA said Blue Valley Tele-Communications Inc. volition marque high-speed net affordable done information successful the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program.

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