A Moundridge company is getting $312,819 from the state of Kansas to expand broadband services. The state awarded Moundridge Communications Network a matching 50/50 grant to expand fiber internet service to the community of Elyria and a rural area near Hesston. The $625,000 project will provide internet service with up to one-gigabit download speeds to “108 households, 10 businesses, 11 community anchors and one educational institution,” according to the state release. In the rural Hesston area, the company will build out north of Dutch Ave. and east of I-135. “The areas around Hesston have Century Link and they have basically abandoned their customers,” Sommer Smith, Vice President of Moundridge Telephone Co., stated. “We get calls from people regularly asking if we can just come one mile and get them service.”
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