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Kinetic and Sumter EMC team to expand broadband across rural GeorgiaBroadband World News, , 10/27/2021
PLAINS, Ga. – Kinetic and Sumter EMC today announced a working agreement to deliver fiber broadband to 16,000 homes and businesses in Southwest Georgia. The unique collaboration means over the next four years, Kinetic will build approximately 1,000 miles of fiber-optic cable across eleven counties. Kinetic by Windstream will attach fiber to utility poles owned by Sumter EMC. Most of the capacity of the expanded network will deliver broadband to homes and businesses across the Sumter EMC footprint, including Chattahoochee, Dougherty, Lee, Marion, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Terrell and Webster counties. The remaining capacity will be allocated to Sumter EMC to serve as the backbone for communications to the EMC's power system equipment. When the project is complete, the percentage of Sumter EMC's member-owners who have access to broadband services will increase from 35 percent to 84 percent. Through the agreement, Sumter EMC and Kinetic will coordinate their engineering and construction activities. The installed fiber network will also enhance electric system reliability through the simultaneous implementation of high-speed fiber-optic communications as a component of Sumter EMC's ongoing smart-grid investments. |
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