Howard County is one step closer to achieving broader high-speed internet coverage, thanks to five newly awarded state grants aimed at expanding broadband access across both urban and rural areas of the county.<\/p>\n
Howard County Judge Brent Pinkerton announced that nearly $1.05 million in grant funding** has been allocated to support this much-needed infrastructure project.<\/p>\n
Pinkerton shared a breakdown of the grant recipients, starting with Premier Holdings, which will receive $749,000 to provide fiber internet to locations in Nashville and surrounding rural areas. Additionally, SWAT will receive $44,000 to extend their internet service to a few areas within the city of Nashville.<\/p>\n
He went on to highlight that Windstream was awarded over $143,000 to expand fiber internet service to customers in Dierks. Two satellite internet providers, SpaceX and Amazon, received a combined $115,000 to serve more remote locations from Center Point northward in Howard County.<\/p>\n
Judge Pinkerton noted that the next step is a one-week public comment period, during which citizens are encouraged to submit feedback or raise any concerns about the broadband expansion plan.<\/p>\n
Pinkerton expressed optimism about the long-term impact of the project, saying the expansion will greatly benefit local families, schools, and businesses, helping to bridge the digital divide in underserved communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howard County is one step closer to achieving broader high-speed internet coverage, thanks to five newly awarded state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-96545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}