{"id":2207,"date":"2021-06-24T22:46:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2021-06-24T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:46:32","slug":"legislation-limits-public-broadband-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/legislation-limits-public-broadband-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation Limits Public BroadBand Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? An amendment in Ohio would prohibit public broadband operators from providing service as long as there was a private-sector company operating in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? The limited exception for public or municipal broadband would be  to only unserved area &amp; those without access to download speeds of at least 10 mbps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? COVID highlighting the need to improve access to broadband. There&#8217;s funding flowing to these projects and that funding has not been distributed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/06\/ohio-republicans-close-to-imposing-near-total-ban-on-municipal-broadband\/\">Ars Technika | Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? An amendment in Ohio would prohibit public broadband operators from providing service as long as there was a private-sector company operating in the area. Why is this important? The limited exception for public or municipal broadband would be to only unserved area &amp; those without access to download speeds of at least 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}