{"id":113742,"date":"2025-08-27T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113742\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:41:10","slug":"34000-oklahoma-locations-to-gain-connectivity-through-broadband-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113742\/","title":{"rendered":"34,000 Oklahoma locations to gain connectivity through broadband expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma Broadband Office announces the final proposal for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal awards $550 million to 20 internet service providers, with plans to connect 34,000 unserved or underserved locations.<\/p>\n<p>State officials say the proposal came in $225 million under budget.<\/p>\n<p>The OBO says fiber optic technology will be provided to 65% of awarded locations, fixed wireless will go to 20% and the remaining 15% of locations will have low-earth orbit satellite service.<\/p>\n<p>Public comments on the proposal will be accepted through Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p>After the public comment period, the office will finalize and submit the proposal by Sept. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma Broadband Office announces the final proposal for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program. The proposal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74171,49081,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-113742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-obo","10":"tag-oklahoma-broadband-office","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113742","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=113742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}