After a successful test period, a division of Cincinnatti utility Cinergy Corp. plans to offer high-speed Internet service over its power lines.
Cinergy Broadband LLC is teaming up with Current Communications Group LLC, a Germantown, Md.-based technology company, to offer the service in sections of Cincinnati this year. Plans call for an eventual expansion into Kentucky and Indiana; Cinergy hopes to market the service to 55,000 of its 1.5 million customers this year.
A second venture will bring the technology to smaller municipal and cooperatively owned power companies, covering 24 million customers across the United States.
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