The scott county rural broadband expansion project is a last mile project located in scott county, kentucky

The lead application is scott county fiscal court, providing project oversight, as well as financial and legal responsibility. The subrecipient ISP is spectrum, providing construction services to build out and maintain network. CTC technology and energy will be a collaborator and provide grant consultation services.activities: the project will use spectrum's fttp epon architecture. The network will be engineered and managed to provide 1 gbps symmetrical service with latency well below 100 milliseconds. Under the proposed project, last-mile fttp epon facilities will be deployed in all unserved, rural areas of scott county. The fiber expansion will connect to spectrum's current upstream hub locations, then to spectrum's national backbone through a tiered network structure. For the project in scott county, KY, spectrum will be able to leverage its pre-existing hub location in georgetown.new customers in the project area will have access to several internet speed options, including charter's spectrum internet assist with a speed of 30/4 mbps for $17.99/month up to internet GIG service with a speed of 1/1 gbps at $134.99/month. The applicant requests an extension of one year. The period of performance for this project will be two years.outcomes: this project will construct approximately 412.7 fiber route miles to serve 5,351 unserved households in the project area, reaching 100% of currently unserved homes. This project will serve the area with qualifying broadband service of a minimum of 30/4 mbps up to 1/1 gbps.beneficiaries: the project will bring 412.7 miles of new fiber to scott county and connect 5,351 households, 273 businesses, and 14 anchor institutions.subrecipient act: the subrecipient of federal funds for this project is spectrum, the internet service provider providing construction services to build out and maintain the network.