Upgrades Are Making Peculiar, Mo., into a Smart Small City

Photo caption: Peculiar Mo., a bedroom community of Kansas City, has partnered with Comcast for high-speed broadband communications to support a number of city and community operations. Shutterstock

Smart cities are not just big cities. Smaller municipalities are also venturing into fiber communications infrastructure that support smart city work like improved operations, faster Internet speeds and other projects.

Peculiar, Mo., a city of about 6,000 residents in the Kansas City metro area, has partnered with Comcast to make it one of the smartest small cities in the Midwest, despite its relatively small size. Comcast will build out its Comcast Business Ethernet Network Service and maintain a fiber system to connect all of the city’s government needs, as well as to expand the network out to provide better connectivity and speed to the rest of the community. […]

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