Community members packed the basement of the Kewanna-Union Township Public library Tuesday afternoon, for the Kewanna Town Media Day with RTC Fiber Communications, in celebration of advancing their mission of eventually providing access to high speed fiber optic internet in all of Fulton County and parts of Marshall and Pulaski. 

This past May RTC was awarded six large grants from Next Level Broadband Connections Round 3, to aid RTC in giving fiber internet access to 4,954 homes in the area. Recently completing fiber builds in areas like Macy, Burket, Silver Lake and Mentone, RTC Fiber Communications is now expanding their fiber services in Fulton County, as well. 

Recently celebrating the completion of Leiters Ford on November 16, RTC's very first fiber project for the Next Level Connections fiber build out to all of Fulton County. Kewanna came as the second town in the county to have fiber internet. 

RTC Communications President Joe McCarter said he hopes to have most of Fulton County with fiber access by the end of 2023, with the town of Fulton next on the list this spring. By 2024 McCarter said they're hoping to be wrapping up the project, with rural Akron and south-east Marshall County, near Tippecanoe, being last on their list.

A big investment for a small town, McCarter credited RTC's recent expansions to the strong support they've received from the current and future fiber communities and the people living within them.