Solar-powered internet hotspots in Louisa County, Virginia, help fill the void in internet access in rural areas. A few times a week, Daphne MacDougall and her three kids pile into the car and head for the Holly Grove Christian Church, about two miles from their home in southeast Louisa County, […]
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This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. The pandemic caps a decade of West Virginia’s struggles with Frontier over internet service. In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Andrew Dean, who owns a restaurant and convenience store in […]
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Knowing it may be met with some skepticism, the Trump administration announced last week a sweeping plan that officials say will transform health care in rural America. Even before the coronavirus pandemic reached into the nation’s less-populated regions, rural Americans were sicker, poorer and older than the rest of the […]
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After a $50 million investment in a fiber-to-the-home network, two Eastern Kentucky counties are starting to reap benefits, according to local leaders. To find the fastest internet in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, bypass the big cities of Louisville and Lexington and head east to McKee, the home ground of People’s […]
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This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. In a conference hall in Pikeville, Kentucky, this September, Gov. Matt Bevin led an eager audience in a countdown. When the audience reached “One!,” a map on the screen behind the governor lit up with the promise of a high-tech future. […]
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In the spring of 2015, KentuckyWired, the Bluegrass State’s ambitious plan to bring high-speed internet access into rural areas, had ground to a halt. Officials were in talks with Macquarie Capital, an Australian investment bank known for organizing big infrastructure projects around the globe, to build and manage the new […]
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