[Update: Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021] – JTM Broadband’s Jordan McDonald told the East Lauderdale News on Friday (Feb. 5, 2021), “We have made a lot of traction on the Lauderdale project in the past month.”
McDonald said the project’s buildout design has changed since the spring, but the goal remains to “get the most people service in the quickest time.”
He elaborated, “We expect to have our first customers online in Lauderdale County in the next month. The first service area we will have online is down County Road 89 from the Tennessee border extending down into Anderson. After that is built, we will work our way to Rogersville, Lexington and Elgin.”
Additionally, McDonald said the company has submitted a new grant application to the State of Alabama to extend their fiber-to-the-home Internet service to additional parts of Lauderdale County.
[Original report below, posted April 2, 2020.]
Governor Kay Ivey has awarded a $404,415 grant to bring high-speed fiber Internet to areas of Rogersville, Lexington and Elgin.
JTM Broadband, based in Hohenwald, Tennessee, said in its grant application that it plans to deploy approximately 26 miles of fiber optic cable to offer broadband connectivity for 1,570 locations.
The locations (Rogersville-Elgin-Lexington) will include 1,303 residential households, 247 businesses and approximately 20 ‘community anchor’ locations such as government buildings, fire stations, police stations, libraries, doctors’ offices and government buildings.
The grant is part of $9.5 million in broadband expansion grants announced by the governor’s office on Tuesday, March 31.
