Rural areas will get high-speed Internet access

Dayton Daily News

A $30 million federal stimulus award to improve high-speed Internet access could transform the way some rural schools educate students.

Western Ohio is the first region in the state to win federal stimulus funding to increase broadband access in rural counties. Earlier this month Gov. Ted Strickland announced $30 million in funding that could bring a total of 300 jobs to 28 of the state’s western counties including Greene, Miami, Preble, Warren and Clark counties.

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Firm to boost broadband access around Dayton

A western Ohio broadband company received a $30 million federal stimulus award Friday.

Com Net Inc. of Wapakoneta received the award from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to add broadband access in 28 western Ohio counties and create more than 300 jobs, according to a press release.

The money will be spent to build more than 700 miles of high-capacity fiber cables. Most of the jobs are in construction to lay fiber in the ground, said a Com Net spokesperson. Then the access to the fiber will be sold to local distributors to take to consumers.

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