{"id":100118,"date":"2025-08-21T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100118\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:54:07","slug":"madison-county-gets-10m-for-broadband-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100118\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison County Gets $10M for Broadband | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Internet\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/662c0bf6a0b61.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n<p>WAMPSVILLE, N.Y. &#8212; $52.6 million in broadband infrastructure awards to enhance connectivity across New York were announced, connecting more than\u00a02,600 homes, businesses and institutions in Madison County.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will connect 6,900 locations in total.<\/p>\n<p>The awards\u2014part of the Municipal Infrastructure Program, Affordable Housing Connectivity Program and Deployment Program County Partnerships\u2014aim to build 234 miles of new fiber infrastructure and 46 wireless hubs.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative targets 28 counties, focusing on underserved rural areas, with internet service costs as low as $10 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Madison County will receive nearly $10 million to partner with Empire Access, constructing 120 miles of fiber.<\/p>\n<p>This project leverages USDA ReConnect contracts to extend service to rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. John W. Mannion said that broadband investments are important for rural areas, highlighting the nearly millions for Madison County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ll continue advocating for connectivity and broadband for Central New York and the Mohawk Valley to connect constituents and their businesses,&#8221; Mannion said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP WAMPSVILLE, N.Y. &#8212; $52.6 million in broadband infrastructure awards to enhance connectivity across New York were announced,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2185,49018,174,67083,67084,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-100118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-broadband","9":"tag-hochul","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-madison-county","12":"tag-mannion","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}