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Lewis County broadband project nears closeout; Toledo Tel reports 2,400 home passings, 1,700 signups
Summary
At the April 1 Lewis County commissioners meeting Toledo Tel gave a progress update on a $25 million county broadband grant: construction is mostly complete on early phases, signups are advancing but CenturyLink/Lumen locate delays have caused some outages; the grant will close out in July and late hookups may incur customer costs.
Toledo Tel told the Lewis County Board of Commissioners on April 1 that construction under a $25,000,000 county broadband grant is nearing closeout and that the project has reached thousands of homes across multiple phases.
Toledo Tel said the grant-funded program comprises two contracts covering phases 1–10. “So far in phases 1 through 3, there were 697 homes installed with duct and fiber,” the presenter said, adding that 317 homes have been completed with active fiber broadband service and 51 of those customers moved their home phone numbers to the new service.
The county and contractor are currently working on contract 2 (phases 4–10). Toledo Tel reported about 60 miles of duct installed in contract 2 and said there are about 2,400 total home passings across the project footprint. “We’ve signed up 1,700 customers to take a drop,” the presenter said, and staff said roughly 20 people have explicitly refused service. For contract 2 the company said roughly 1,040 customers had signed up for duct and fiber, with 367 of those now fully complete.
Why this matters: the project is funded…
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