{"id":109233,"date":"2022-06-30T17:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T00:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=109233"},"modified":"2022-06-30T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T00:34:42","slug":"rural-high-speed-broadband-coming-to-antelope-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/06\/30\/rural-high-speed-broadband-coming-to-antelope-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural high-speed broadband coming to Antelope Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/modem-internet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109234\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/modem-internet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"996\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/modem-internet.jpg 996w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/modem-internet-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/modem-internet-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PALMDALE &#8211; The Community Coalition of the Antelope Valley (CoCoAV) has been awarded a California Community Foundation grant for outreach and education to guarantee the rural portions of the Antelope Valley have access to reliable, affordable high-speed internet, the organization announced..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working to get funding for broadband deployment in the rural communities in the Antelope Valley. The Federal Government is promising high-speed internet for everyone. We will hold them to it,\u201d said CoCoAV Founder and Executive Director <strong>Eric Ohlsen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to be offering the cooperative model to the rural areas of Antelope Valley as the best way for residents, students, and businesses to have access to affordable high-speed broadband,\u201d said CoCoAV broadband lead <strong>Jessica Fish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The first broadband education project the CoCoAV is bringing to the Antelope Valley is a workshop on forming a co-operative structure to manage the build of a fiber network and create a public internet service provider to maintain the rural broadband system.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>\u201cRural Broadband Basics Using A CoOp Model\u201d<\/em> workshop is for local town councils, school districts, employers and anyone interested in bringing affordable high-speed broadband to Antelope Valley\u2019s under-served broadband areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The free informative workshop will be held via Zoom on Friday, July 29, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0To register, contact Jessica Fish at Jessica@CoCoAV.org.<\/p>\n<h6><em>[Information via news release from the Community Coalition of the Antelope Valley.]<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8211; The Community Coalition of the Antelope Valley (CoCoAV) has been awarded a California Community Foundation grant for outreach and education to guarantee the rural portions of the Antelope Valley have access to reliable, affordable high-speed internet, the organization announced.. \u201cWe are working to get funding for broadband deployment in the rural communities in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109235,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109233\/revisions\/109235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}