How Comcast is Partnering with Indiana...

How Comcast is Partnering with Indiana to Improve Broadband Service

INDIANAPOLIS–Together with the Indiana Broadband Office, Comcast says they have completed the construction to connect more than 2,100 new homes and businesses in several central Indiana counties to high-speed Internet from Xfinity and Comcast Business.

This is part of Comcast’s $634 million network investment in Indiana over the last three years.

Joni Hart, Vice President of Government & Community Affairs for Comcast Indiana, says communities in Hendricks, Wayne, Allen, and Delaware counties are joining 65 million homes and businesses nationwide with access to a network that fuels innovation, productivity, and everyday connection.

“Expanding fast, reliable broadband to every Hoosier community remains central to Comcast’s mission in Indiana,” said Joni Hart, Vice President of Government & Community Affairs for Comcast Indiana. “When homes and businesses get connected for the first time, it transforms what they can achieve. This investment opens doors to Comcast’s full suite of Internet, mobile, and entertainment services with both the Xfinity and Comcast Business brands – enabling employers and families to thrive in a digital world.”

Hart says having a partnership with the State of Indiana has been a blessing.

“Residents and businesses in Bartholomew, Carroll, Fayette, Hamilton, Johnson, Marshall and Morgan counties were also recently connected to Xfinity and Comcast Business products and services as part of Comcast’s partnership with the state,” said Hart.

Hart says a lot of progress has been made to improve the digital divide in the Hoosier State.

“If people don’t have the means, the ability, or the trust to subscribe to those services, then we’re really building a bridge to nowhere. But we’re clearly expanding infrastructure further and further out to more rural areas,” said Hart.

She says the biggest barrier to that is cost, but investments like this help ease the burden of that cost.

If you live in Indiana, you can visit Xfinity.com and businesses can go to comcastbusiness.com to see if services are available in their community.