{"id":91709,"date":"2025-05-11T03:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91709\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T03:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T03:29:12","slug":"almost-every-home-in-vera-soon-online-with-high-speed-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91709\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost every home in Vera soon online with high-speed internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fast internet is on the way to more rural Oklahomans living in Green Country.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma Broadband Office and Totah Communications just launched four new projects to bring fiber optic internet to Washington and Osage counties.<\/p>\n<p>More than $4.5 million will connect 250 homes and businesses, including nearly all of Vera in Washington County.<\/p>\n<p>The awards were made last year by the Oklahoma\u00a0Broadband\u00a0Governing Board for high-speed internet expansion.<\/p>\n<p>At least one project is slated to be built in 57 of the state\u2019s 77 counties. Approximately 170 projects have been awarded to provide high-speed access to some 70,000 homes and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Grants of some $500 million were awarded in 2024 by the Oklahoma\u00a0Broadband\u00a0Governing Board. When matching funds from the internet service providers building the projects are added, the total investment is more than $750 million.<\/p>\n<p>ISPs are now competing for more than $768 million in additional grant funds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all part of a larger push to close the digital gap and expand high-speed access statewide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fast internet is on the way to more rural Oklahomans living in Green Country. The Oklahoma Broadband Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[43346,3082,43352,43350,43347,53,43351,16,15,43348,6709,43349],"class_list":{"0":"post-91709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-green-country","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-oklahoma-broadband-governing-board","11":"tag-oklahoma-broadband-office","12":"tag-osage","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-totah-communications","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-vera","18":"tag-washington","19":"tag-washington-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114487084087451605","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}