{"id":166291,"date":"2025-09-18T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/166291\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:06:09","slug":"almost-30-million-awarded-to-chenango-co-broadband-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/166291\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost $30 million awarded to Chenango Co. broadband expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NORWICH, N.Y. (WBNG) &#8212; Chenango County has been working on broadband expansion since the COVID-19 pandemic era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Shane Butler, the Director of Planning at the county\u2019s planning department, they have been awarded grants in the past to help those who need it most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To Butler, expanding broadband is important for Chenango County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201c{For} telehealth, just working from home in general, people in rural areas have a real struggle when it comes to broadband access and just trying to carry out their day-to-day lives,\u201d Butler said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than $630 million has been invested in the state to expand broadband access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Senator Kirstin Gillibrand said high-speed internet isn\u2019t a luxury, it\u2019s a necessity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s a fundamental necessity and I think it should be a public utility exactly like the way people are entitled to water service and electricity, I think they should be entitled to broadband,\u201d Gillibrand said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In total, Chenango County received about $30 million. When combined with Otsego County, they received about $80 million, which is a 5th of the total grant money in New York State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Chenango, the following will receive the grant money to expand broadband: CBN Geneva, LLC, Telecommunications of New York, Inc., IBT Group USA, LLC and Space Exploration Technologies Corp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WBNG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORWICH, N.Y. (WBNG) &#8212; Chenango County has been working on broadband expansion since the COVID-19 pandemic era. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-166291","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\/166291","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=166291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}