Fiber internet is now available in Hedley, setting the community apart from many rural communities and giving residents and businesses there the opportunity to have the fastest service on the market.
An announcement from Windstream-owned Kinetic says more than 260 homes and businesses in the Hedley area, or nearly two-thirds of the community, are now eligible for ultrahigh-speed internet with the deployment of optical fiber by network provider Kinetic.
“Fiber in the Hedley area means you’ll have more bandwidth to stream, game and surf on every device in your house,” Kinetic state operations President Danny Ferguson said. “And your connection will stay superfast no matter how many other people are online. They can even be streaming a movie and you’ll still have the same connection.”
Kinetic’s fiber-optic network gives users equal, symmetrical upload and download speeds of 1,000 megabits a second, or 1 gigabit a second, providing what is known as “next-generation access.”
“Fiber is the technology that can meet today’s demands and tomorrow’s potential,” Ferguson said. “‘High Speed for Here’ now includes the Hedley area.”
According to the Kinetic website, Hedley residential customers can get 500 megabit service for $39.99 a month and 1.0 gigabit service for $69.99 a month.
Hedley city officials were unaware that fiber deployment had happened in Hedley, but they welcomed the news.
“This is going to be wonderful for the community,” City Secretary Kim Gossman said. “It will be wonderful for other businesses that want to come in, and people here can start using internet like they need to and not just lagging. There is so much this can help the community with.”
Gossman said the school, the senior citizens center, and current and potential businesses would all benefit from the availability of fiber internet.
The Hedley fiber project is part of a $2 billion multiyear capital investment strategy to dramatically expand gigabit internet service across Kinetic’s 18-state footprint.
It’s not clear when Kinetic will expand the fiber offering to other communities in Donley County, but Ferguson said Clarendon is “definitely in the mix.”
“We’re a year into a five-year plan,” he said. “We don’t like to put anything out until it’s planned. At this time there are no firm plans for 2023 for Clarendon.”
Ferguson also did not know of any plans for Howardwick.
Customers may visit GoKinetic.com to find out if they are eligible for a speed upgrade and how Kinetic can help meet their home or business needs.
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