Telling the Broadband Story

Nothing better supports the case for broadband expansion like the stories from those who use the technology in an innovative way. Below are multiple examples that tell the stories of Americans using broadband.

Healthcare

Broadband technology allows rural Kentucky company to transmit digital medical imaging for diagnosis. (Story - PDF)
Healthcare information is regularly updated and secured by DataHEALTH, a eastern Kentucky medical data storage company. (Story - PDF)
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center uses broadband technology to maintain digital medical records. Medical records can be recalled instantaneously for any emergency the hospital may experience. (Story - PDF)

Arts and Culture

Regional art form of basket making is made available to the world on the Basket Maker’s Catalog in Allen County, Kentucky. (Story - PDF)
WMMT FM Radio 88.7, the 24-hour voice of the mountains, is available to anyone with a computer via the Internet. The station is broadcasting Appalachian culture to the world and creating a diverse fan base. (Story - PDF)
Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails (KAHT) Internet-based driving trails direct tourists to craftsmen and treasured destinations. (Story - PDF)

Entrepreneurship

Saucing up the Internet!! McDowell Farms Salsa has experienced a financial boom with Internet. Belinda Fay and Carla McDowell are selling the family salsa recipe to the world. (Story - PDF)
Ever wanted to run a global business? Rosalee Belamy of Clarksville, Tennessee is making her line of plus-size clothing available to the world with customers in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Arctic Circle, the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and several other smaller countries. (Story - PDF)
Family-owned deer outfitters in Grayson County successfully takes Kentucky hunting online with Buck Country Outfitters. (Story - PDF)

Manufacturing

Leading regional manufacturer of metal castings, fabrications and machined parts considers broadband technology essential to getting the next job – literally. J.R. Hoe and Sons depends on broadband technology to bid for large jobs online. (Story - PDF)
Griffin Industries in Campbell County, Kentucky is using creative methods of biodiesel development, all of which are dependent on broadband technology to market them to the world. (Story - PDF)
Tarter Gate Farm Equipment depends on a robust fiber network to keeps its 600-plus employees connected and manufacturing line to create 3,000 gates a day. (Story - PDF)

Sports and Leisure

Thoroughbreds heat up with track and the Internet. Stonerside Stable, a leading thoroughbred breeding and racing farm in the heart of Kentucky, uses broadband technology for daily race updates from their horses in England and around the world. (Story - PDF)
Rick Dees, a nationally syndicated radio personality, uses broadband Internet to broadcast his daily show and weekly top 40 show from his farm outside Danville, Kentucky. Broadband allows Dees to enjoy the benefits of the bluegrass state without missing a beat in Los Angeles. (Story - PDF)
Broadband on the Boat. Green Turtle Bay and Marina in Grand Rivers, Kentucky wanted to bring technology to the boats to increase tourism. The marina transmit wireless broadband to all boats on dock. (Story - PDF)

Non-profit

Sarah’s Place Women’s Resource Center, Inc. uses broadband technology to help clients help themselves. A home for domestic violence victims and anyone else in need, Sarah’s Place teaches online classes to increase work skills for participants. (Story - PDF)
The Fairy God Foundation provides teenager girls who would not be able to go to the prom and opportunity. With the help of the foundation website, the Fairy God Foundation is enabling a memorable prom for disadvantaged students. (Story - PDF)

Agriculture

In Mercer County, Kentucky, Anderson Circle Farms wants to move the industry further ahead with a new application that allows farm workers to record information at any location inputting inventory, labor, machine maintenance, physical structure, agronomics, accounting and livestock data. (Story - PDF)
Sweet Farm Equipment sells refurbished and antique farm equipment online to customers around the world. A sweet solution for a farm facing the farmer’s struggle in a faltering economy. (Story - PDF)
Bring technology to the cornfields. AgConnections, Inc. provides agriculture software to farms across the country from a rural community in west Kentucky. (Story - PDF)

For more Kentucky broadband stories, click here. Everyday, we hear a new story about how broadband has made an impact. These stories will be regularly updated to reflect such stories.