{"id":128175,"date":"2025-09-02T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128175\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:57:08","slug":"worcester-county-almost-at-100-high-speed-internet-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128175\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester County almost at 100% high-speed internet coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmdt.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/v\/v\/computer2.png\" data-lb-width=\"1280\" data-lb-height=\"720\" class=\" photoswipe gtxlightbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-709501 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/computer2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Computer2\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. \u2013\u00a0Worcester County is almost at 100%, specifically for high-speed fiber internet.<\/p>\n<p>The county has been applying for grants, working with state partners, and internet providers. They\u2019ve been in contact with multiple companies, including Choptank Fiber and Simple Fiber.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they\u2019ve formed positive relationships, which should help locals for years.<\/p>\n<p>With the abundance of farmland, service has been weak. in 2020, the county worked with the FCC on a report to identify potential challenges of improved internet.<\/p>\n<p>Weston Young, Chief Administration Officer, says this has been a priority for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorcester County, and the county commissioners, have been very aggressive in trying to obtain grants, and we even put some of our own funding towards bringing high- speed fiber broadband,\u201d said Young. \u201cWe\u2019ve pursued every avenue that we can, the fact we\u2019re nearing 100% is really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young said the state classification of high-speed broadband could be fixed mobile wireless. Those are your 4g and 5g options.<\/p>\n<p>If the state deems that internet sufficient, the county could face potential issues receiving further grant funding.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. \u2013\u00a0Worcester County is almost at 100%, specifically for high-speed fiber internet. The county has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-128175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128175","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=128175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}