KENTUCKY PRESS NEWS SERVICE
High-speed Internet access will become available to 62,000 more Kentucky residents thanks to funds from the Federal Communications Commission.
The FCC fund called Connect America will pay $21 million a year to Windstream Communictions to make broadband available in locations where it would otherwise be too expensive to extend service. Monthly fees should run about what people in other parts of the U.S. pay for the service, an FCC spokesman said.
About a third of rural Americans lack access to high-speed Internet, the FCC said in a news release. In all, Windstream is receiving almost $175 million in annual, ongoing support from the Connect America fund to provide broadband service to 800,000 rural residents of 17 states, including Kentucky.
