Officials accidental this wealth volition enactment the enlargement of high-speed, reliable net passim the state.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear announced connected Thursday that Kentucky volition person a national “Internet for All” assistance grant of $5.8 million.
Officials accidental this wealth volition enactment the enlargement of high-speed, reliable net passim the state.
A spokesperson for Beshear's bureau says the backing volition spell toward:
- Identification of unserved and underserved locales
- Increasing capableness of Kentucky’s broadband office
- Asset mapping to place existing activities that enactment the project’s extremity and place gaps successful access, affordability and adoption
- Collaboration with Kentucky’s authorities integer equity plan
- Local engagement with unserved, underserved and underrepresented communities to amended recognize barriers to adoption
Officials added that Kentucky applied for the backing and was awarded it done the national Broadband, Equity and Deployment (BEAD) program. The readying assistance was awarded to Kentucky done the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
“Expanding entree to reliable, high-speed net volition amended the lives of Kentuckians and enactment our aboriginal economical growth,” Beshear said.
A spokesperson for Beshear's bureau says this past summertime the politician announced much than $89.6 cardinal successful grants to grow high-speed net entree to much than 34,000 Kentucky families and businesses successful 36 counties.
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