Leadership of a public-private partnership building more than 3,000 miles of fiber broadband cable to all Kentucky counties says the project could potentially be finished by “mid-fall” after seeing mounting costs, years of delays and strong scrutiny in the past from state lawmakers.
KentuckyWired interim Executive Director Mike Hayden during a Kentucky Communications Network Authority meeting Tuesday said the construction of the fiber broadband network is 99% complete, with small gaps of fiber left to be built. About 36 miles of fiber still needs to be installed in western Kentucky – between Princeton and Ledbetter – due to holdups with installing fiber on poles, and another seven miles still needs to be built at Fort Knox.
