By Colin McCawley
The South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff along with state, local and private-sector partners have launched a broadband project bringing Wi-Fi access to 1,000 homes in 60 days where no access existed before in rural Allendale County.
“We did two things for Allendale County, we provided free public Wi-Fi,” said Jim Stritzinger, Broadband Director of the ORS. “The second thing we did was we installed the first private LTE network in South Carolina.
Through the CARES Act, the ORS was granted $50 Million for Broadband Infrastructure Programs. As part of this expansion of infrastructure, the ORS funded a $393,104 Allendale Broadband Pilot Project to expand broadband access in Allendale County.