Kinetic expands fiber broadband service area

Nearly 2,200 homes, businesses and schools in Berks, Chester and Lancaster counties are now eligible for fiber broadband, high-speed internet provided by Kinetic.

The service was announced during an event held at the Caernarvon Township Municipal Building in Morgantown, which also included a ceremonial ribbon-cutting for fiber broadband. Participants included Pennsylvania Telephone Association president Steven Samara; Lydia Messner, an aide for state Sen. Scott Margin; Kinetic state public affairs vice president Jeanne Shearer; Berks County community and economic development director Pamela ShuppMenet; Twin Valley School District superintendent Patrick Winters; Kinetic state operations president Susan Schraibman; and Caernarvon Township supervisor Paul Whiteman Sr.

About 900 customers in Berks County, 750 in Chester County and 550 in Lancaster County are now eligible for fiber. That total of nearly 2,200 customers will likely increase to more than 3,100 by this time next year, Kinetic estimates. Kinetic’s fiberoptic broadband lets users upload and download at up to 1 gigabit per second, or 1,000 megabits a second, providing what is known as “next-generation access.”

The southeastern Pennsylvania fiber project is part of a $2 billion multiyear capital investment strategy to dramatically expand gigabit