Breaking Ground: Here’s what universal broadband access could look like
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Kai Ryssdal, right, interviews Keith Gabbard, CEO of Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative, in McKee, Kentucky.
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We visit McKee, Kentucky, population 800, where all homes and businesses have had fiber-optic internet connections since 2014.
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Nancy Farghalli
Executive Producer
Maria Hollenhorst
Producer II
Andie Corban
Producer I
Sarah Leeson
Producer I
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