Parts of rural Stanly should soon have fiber-powered broadband - The Stanly News & Press

Parts of rural Stanly should soon have fiber-powered broadband - The Stanly News & Press

Several rural areas of Stanly will soon have drastically-improved internet access following groundbreaking ceremony hosted by the Stanly Chamber. Thanks to both state and local funding, Kinetic, the internet branch of local telephone company Windstream, announced the expansion of fiber optic internet services to rural Stanly. Large portions of Millingport and neighborhoods close by located off N.C. Hwy. 73, including Ridenhour, along with rural …

Broadband and Rural Real Estate

Over the last decade, I’ve heard from dozens of real estate agents who work in rural America. They universally tell me that it’s gotten exceedingly hard to sell rural homes that don’t have good broadband. I’ve also written a few blogs over the years about people who moved to a rural home and were shocked to find they couldn’t buy broadband. They probably moved from a place where broadband is ubiquitously available, and they never imagined that t…