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Kentucky
Prepares for the Networked World
From:
Office
of the Governor
The Governor’s
Office for the New Economy released preliminary maps today depicting
the current status of Kentucky’s information superhighway. Established
by Governor Paul Patton earlier this year, the connectkentucky Steering
Committee has the job of planning and building the information superhighway
of the future in Kentucky.
“In order to attract the jobs and economic development of the future
and build a quality of life for all Kentuckians, we must ensure that
affordable high speed Internet highways are available throughout the
Commonwealth,” said Governor Patton. The maps released today show
that Kentucky’s primary backbone traverses the State from Cincinnati
to Louisville going through Bowling Green to Nashville and finally Atlanta.
The 90 mile region surrounding Northern Kentucky and including Lexington
and Louisville is on par with other major areas of the country including
the 90 mile radius around Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Columbus, Ohio; and
Lansing/Ann Arbor/Jackson, Michigan.
The data for these maps was provided by AT&T, BellSouth, Broadwing,
Espire, Excite@Home, Fiber Network Solutions, Genuity, Global Crossing,
ICG
Communications, Intermedia, Internet Commerce & Communications,
Level 3, McLeod USA, PSINet, Qwest, Savvis, Sprint and Williams Communications.
These maps are open for public comment and can be viewed on the connectkentucky
Website at www.connectkentucky.org.
Additional information
regarding business, consumer, and local government use of the Internet
throughout the state will be released sometime later this month.
For additional information:
Office of
the Governor
August 14, 2002
Contact: Jean-Marie Lawson, Center for Information Technology Enterprise,
Inc.,
(270) 535-3146, or Terri Giltner, Office of the Governor, (502) 564-2611
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