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Nearly 800 homes and businesses in Greene County (PA) will be able to get high-speed fiber internet for the first time, due to a $5.2 million public–private partnership with broadband provider Kinetic. The project, expected to start in mid-November and be completed in the spring, will provide internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second to eligible homes and business in parts of the townships of Aleppo, Freeport, Gilmore, Perry, Springhill and Wayne.

A $6.8 million public–private partnership between Windstream's broadband provider, Kinetic, and Bullitt County (KY) will connect some 6,300 homes and businesses with high-speed fiber internet for the first time. The project, expected to start in early October, will provide internet speeds up to 8 Gbps to eligible homes and business in several parts of the county, including the unincorporated communities of Cedar Grove, Solitude and Brownington. Under the partnership, the county will commit $2 million from its general fund to support the project.

Windstream announced that construction will begin this September 2021 on the first of seven fiber broadband expansion projects funded in partnership with the State of Arkansas. The projects will deliver Kinetic by Windstream gigabit-speed internet service to more than 15,100 households and small businesses in rural areas of seven Arkansas counties. The fiber-to-the-premises projects were made possible by $46.3 million in state grants funded through the federal American Rescue Plan Act and administered by the Arkansas Rural Connect Broadband Program.