OneCommunity to use $18.7M in stimulus money to open Internet to the poor - Crain's Cleveland Business

OneCommunity has received $18.7 million in stimulus money that it plans to use to help poor residents in Ohio and four other states get high-speed Internet access and learn to use it.

The Cleveland-based nonprofit, which provides fiber-optic Internet service to government agencies and nonprofits in Northeast Ohio, will use $11.7 million of that money to increase broadband adoption in Cleveland, Akron and southeastern Ohio. The rest of the money for the “Connect Your Community” program will go to Detroit; Lexington, Ky.; Bradenton, Fla.; and Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss...