{"id":57058,"date":"2023-02-02T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57058"},"modified":"2023-02-02T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:27:12","slug":"high-speed-internet-coming-to-underserved-floridians-through-new-broadband-opportunity-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/02\/high-speed-internet-coming-to-underserved-floridians-through-new-broadband-opportunity-program\/","title":{"rendered":"High-speed internet coming to underserved Floridians through New Broadband Opportunity Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1015\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/High-speed-internet-coming.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/High-speed-internet-coming.jpeg 1015w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/High-speed-internet-coming-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/High-speed-internet-coming-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1015px) 100vw, 1015px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis announced today broadband projects that will serve parts of Southwest Florida that have gone without it, connecting online users to low lag time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Broadband Opportunity Grant Program, administered by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, awarded more than $144 million dollars to 41 counties and will serve 160,000 residential, educational, and business and community locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the DeSantis administration, Lehigh Acres will see the following changes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lehigh Acres ($3,988,532)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;to add 126 miles of fiber optic cable to provide FTTH services to 1,998 underserved locations in eastern Lee County with minimum symmetrical download and upload speeds of 1 GBPS.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lehigh Acres&nbsp;($4,111,225)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;to deploy fiber optic cable service to 2,640 unserved and underserved locations within Lee County with minimum download speeds of 50 MBPS and upload speeds of 10 MBPS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For additional information, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/0da0tk\/sbne5xc\/wuc2odb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.FloridaJobs.org\/Broadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Ron DeSantis announced today broadband projects that will serve parts of Southwest Florida that have gone without it, connecting online users to low lag time. The Broadband Opportunity Grant&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57061,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57058\/revisions\/57061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}