{"id":1273648,"date":"2023-11-07T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1273648"},"modified":"2023-11-09T06:27:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T12:27:22","slug":"usda-awards-cherokee-county-25m-towards-broadband-fiber-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1273648","title":{"rendered":"USDA awards Cherokee County $25M towards broadband fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1273649\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-177x175.jpg 177w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-353x350.jpg 353w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>HENDERSON &#8212; On Monday, the Eastex Telephone Cooperative was awarded $25,000,000 by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to expand broadband in Cherokee county. According to our news partner KETK, the award is expected to connect more than 1,200 homes and around 200 farms. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our mission is to make sure every rural American is served. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the place where our emphasis is,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Andy Berke, administrator, USDA Rural Utilities Service. Under the federal reconnect program, Eastex will be able to install and provide fiber infrastructure. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can sell the goods you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re making in Chicago or New York from East Texas. You can study wherever you want from East Texas, or go see a doctor from this. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much opportunity open to you by this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Berke. The fiber network monthly cost will be kept low for anyone who qualifies.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The president made sure that there was a $30 a month voucher that anybody could get if they made 200% of poverty or less,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Berke. However, it might take some time for officials to get to some areas. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It might be a year before you see us get there but if you can sign up now, we know who to do drops to when we go,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Rusty Dorman, General manager for Eastex Telephone Cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>Texans will be able to accept more money for broadband from the state by casting their vote Tuesday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Proposition 8 will bring $1.8 billion to the rural fund to support fiber to the rural areas of Texas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dorman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON &#8212; On Monday, the Eastex Telephone Cooperative was awarded $25,000,000 by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to expand broadband in Cherokee county. According to our news partner KETK, the award is expected to connect more than 1,200 homes and around 200 farms. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our mission is to make sure every rural American is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1273648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USDA awards Cherokee County $25M towards broadband fiber<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1273651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"USDA awards Cherokee County $25M towards broadband fiber infrastructure","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 07:03:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"USDA awards Cherokee County $25M towards broadband fiber infrastructure","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273658,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273648\/revisions\/1273658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}