The City Commissioners met on Monday to speak with Rainbow Communications representative Julie Bergman about updates with the Fiber Project. City Administrator Becky Berger was not present during the meeting due to illness with strep throat. Bergman explained the current status of the project and how it aims to provide a fiber broadband network to residents in Hiawatha. “We’re overbuilding all the lines in town to be able to provide fiber Internet to all the residential residents,” Bergman said. “We’ve had fiber to businesses since about 2012-2013 time frame.” Bergman also mentioned about working with construction companies to complete the fiber cable installation and notices would be hung on customers’ doorknobs to let them know about fiber cable work being done. Bergman also gave more info about more Internet technology being upgraded in Kansas and added that the state was qualifying cities as being “broadband ready” and “fiber ready.” “Here in the next 30 or 60 days, we’ll be coming back to kind of talk to you about that as far as becoming a certified broadband ready city in the state of Kansas,” Bergman explained. “So that’s a campaign that the state is starting also to make sure all cities are open to, you know, advanced services and being ready for high speed.”
Source: City Government | hiawathaworldonline.com
