{"id":398141,"date":"2023-08-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=398141"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Broadband-office-seeks-input-on-Rota-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Broadband-office-seeks-input-on-Rota-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband office seeks input on Rota today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Broadband Policy &amp; Development Office under the Office of the Governor, or BPD, will be holding a stakeholder engagement meeting on the island of Rota today, Aug. 4, from 2pm to 4pm at the Department of Commerce conference room.<\/p>\n<p>The BPD, through the CNMI Office of the Governor, has been established with financial support and guidance for the National Telecommunications &amp; Information Administration\u2019s Broadband Equity, Access &amp; Deployment, or BEAD, Program. The BPD is tasked with implementing broadband deployment, equity planning, and exploring implementation opportunities. At present, the BPD is currently crafting the BEAD five-year action plan. During this process, the BPD is reaching out to stakeholders for comments, insight, and collaboration. Each week a virtual meeting is held to discuss different facets of the action plan. This week the focus will be primarily on the broadband internet needs of the island of Rota.<\/p>\n<p>If on Rota, join us at the in-person meeting. If anyone would like to attend virtually, this is the link to the meeting: <a href=\"https:\/\/meet.google.com\/cvc-oxyy-umd\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/meet.google.com\/cvc-oxyy-umd<\/a>. The virtual meeting is every Friday at 3pm. <strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/dd54332a3e1247ab35004b663dcc4ca4.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>Broadband<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broadband Policy &amp; Development Office under the Office of the Governor, or BPD, will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}