Earlier this morning, representatives from Indiana County hosted a news conference detailing updates on the Indiana County Broadband Deployment Initiative.
After $1.5 million in grant funds was awarded to Indiana County through the Appalachian Regional Commission’s POWER Initiative, the county will enter into a contract with internet service providers to design, construct and deploy high-speed broadband infrastructure to deliver high-speed, low latency internet to project areas. The projected footprint is expected to reach more than 800 residential and 75 business customers.
Office of Planning & Development Executive Director Byron Stauffer said that unserved and/or underserved areas will be the main target areas for this project and that the county will begin the bidding process this summer.
As of now, a fiber optic backbone runs through 12 townships serving more than 13,000 customers with standard installation speeds of one gigabit-per-second.
You can watch a replay of the update in its entirety by clicking here.
