Vanderburgh County Commissioners and AT&T Continue  to Close the Digital Divide in Vanderburgh County 

 Vanderburgh County Commissioners and AT&T Continue 

to Close the Digital Divide in Vanderburgh County 

EVANSVILLE, IN (June 23, 2023) – As part of the partnership with AT&T to bring equal access to modern information and communications technology to all of Vanderburgh County, the Board of Commissioners are pleased to participate in AT&T’s free refurbished laptop distribution event for Vanderburgh County students and families on June 27, 2023 at Highland Elementary School, located at 6701 Darmstadt Road, Evansville, Indiana. Preselected by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) and the EVSC Foundation, these families and students will be picking up computers funded by an AT&T donation to Compudopt. 

AT&T will also provide an update at this time on the Vanderburgh County Rural Broadband Project aimed at bringing fiber-powered broadband access to over 20,000 customer locations in unincorporated Vanderburgh County. 

In 2021, the Commissioners announced the nearly $40 million-dollar project with AT&T as the provider. Of that investment, $9.9 million came from funding through the American Rescue Plan Act and $29.7 million was an investment by AT&T. 

Bridging the digital divide by bringing previously unavailable services to rural homes and businesses, this transformational