Joint broadband update: contractor locating delays stall Warren County work, presenter urges state escalation
A joint BEAD project representative told the Warren County Commissioners that work is delayed because USIC, the utility-locating contractor, has limited crews covering multiple counties, and urged the county to ask the state PUC to intervene; the presenter offered a county-specific web registration to improve scheduling.
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Matthew Andrews, a presenter for the joint broadband effort, told the Warren County Commissioners that progress on local broadband builds is stalled by utility locating delays. “We are a 100% dependent on USIC to get locates and paint,” Andrews said, adding that USIC had told the team it would not be working in the county this week and that the company’s limited crew coverage stretches across multiple counties.
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