{"id":52827,"date":"2025-09-30T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52827\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:25:08","slug":"city-of-superior-brings-a-broadband-success-story-to-northern-wisconsin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52827\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Superior brings a broadband success story to northern Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After five years of planning, the city of Superior (WI) launched a new city-owned fiber optic network called ConnectSuperior.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connectsuperior.superiorwi.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ConnectSuperior<\/a>\u00a0works kind of like a highway, where the city supplies the infrastructure, and businesses can use that network to provide high-speed internet service to residents. Stephanie Becken, the city\u2019s broadband manager,\u00a0said\u00a0that the new network has been a game-changer for Superior. Before, residents were limited to a handful of existing internet service providers in the area, and connectivity could be spotty because those companies hadn\u2019t invested in updated infrastructure.\u00a0\u201cNow, with this system, we\u2019re able to really (welcome) as many internet service providers as the market can bear,\u201d Becken said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After five years of planning, the city of Superior (WI) launched a new city-owned fiber optic network called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[542,6433,20462,3896,16734,26329,42,44985,359,111,139,69,2552,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-52827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-access","9":"tag-affordability","10":"tag-bead","11":"tag-broadband","12":"tag-digital-divide","13":"tag-digital-equity","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-iija","16":"tag-internet","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-service","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}