{"id":35552,"date":"2020-10-04T20:35:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T01:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/?p=35552"},"modified":"2020-10-06T20:38:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T01:38:58","slug":"leaders-discuss-future-of-rural-broadband-service-bowling-green-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/2020\/10\/leaders-discuss-future-of-rural-broadband-service-bowling-green-daily-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders discuss future of rural broadband service \u2014 Bowling Green Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dewayne McDonald and Johnny McClanahan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The availability of high-speed internet in Warren County has long been a topic of concern among residents.<\/p>\n<p>Like a lot of the country, some of our most rural residents are consistently at a disadvantage when it comes to broadband access. The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting work-from-home and nontraditional instruction requirements have only deepened the digital divide.<\/p>\n<p>Now more than ever, high-speed internet access is a crucial resource for families and businesses alike. However, rural broadband is a challenging task. If it were a profitable endeavor, the large private companies would already provide the service.<\/p>\n<p>Before COVID-19 was even imagined, the Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Corp. board of directors heard the call for high-speed internet from our members loud and clear. Though our primary mission is to provide safe, reliable electricity, we knew there was an opportunity for potential partners to provide high-speed internet services to our members who are underserved or unserved. North Central Telephone Cooperative, a local telephone cooperative, saw that same need in Warren County as it was rolling out its high-speed internet service in neighboring Allen County.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgdailynews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/leaders-discuss-future-of-rural-broadband-service\/article_dcfb46e9-5d3f-5b2b-af9a-053178d74aa5.html\">Read the full article in the Bowling Green Daily News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dewayne McDonald and Johnny McClanahan The availability of high-speed internet in Warren County has long been a topic of concern among residents. Like a lot of the country, some of our most rural residents are consistently at a disadvantage when it comes to broadband access. The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting work-from-home and nontraditional [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-04-10 20:00:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberforwarren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}