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# cn|2 Pure Politics  – Public-private partnership will create 3,000-mile fiber network throughout Kentucky, improve broadband access in mountains
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/cn2-pure-politics-public-private-partnership-will-create-3000-mile-fiber-network-throughout-kentucky-improve-broadband-access-in-mountains/
- Published: 2014-12-29T18:23:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T06:30:53.000Z
- Description: Public-private partnership will create 3,000-mile fiber network throughout Kentucky, improve broadband access in mountains 12/23/2014 09:57 PM by Kevin Wheatley • Filed under: From Frankfort FRANKFORT — Congressman Hal Rogers’ vision of a “silicon holler” in eastern Kentucky came closer to reality
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> Public-private partnership will create 3,000-mile fiber network throughout Kentucky, improve broadband access in mountains   
> 12/23/2014 09:57 PM   
> by Kevin Wheatley • Filed under: From Frankfort   
> FRANKFORT — Congressman Hal Rogers’ vision of a “silicon holler” in eastern Kentucky came closer to reality Tuesday after officials announced a wide-ranging effort to provide high-speed Internet access throughout the state, with Appalachia getting some early attention.   
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> Rogers, Gov. Steve Beshear and others touted the public-private partnership between Kentucky and Australia-based Macquarie Capital to develop a fiber infrastructure as a godsend for the impoverished mountain region.   
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> “Eastern Kentucky will be equal to the world in limitless technology — no more boundaries sketched by our terrain, no more boundaries for high-tech work,” said Rogers, R-Somerset. “In the past we were limited by rough terrain and a shortage of modern highways. We can truly create a ‘silicon holler’ and compete with the rest of the world because the cable levels those mountains and gives every county worldwide access.”   
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> Eastern Kentucky is a priority in the Next Generation Kentucky Information Highway plan, as officials hope to complete work on a fiber infrastructure “spine” from northern Kentucky to Williamsburg along Interstate 75 by spring 2016.

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Significant news on the Gigabit #broadband internet services front in Kentucky!

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