working together to get connected
Take the SurveyThe Pocahontas County Broadband Council serves to advocate, coordinate communication, and identify and pursue opportunities to build fast, reliable, affordable internet to every corner of the county where residents live and work. To do this, we need to know about your internet service, bad or good.
About us
Pocahontas Broadband Council
While Pocahontas County is one of the most beautiful counties in West Virginia and in fact even on the East Coast, that very same rural isolation that attracts tourists here has also limited job opportunities for those who are hardy enough to live here. Compound the fact that there are no interstate highways here with cell service and internet access being either non-existent or very sketchy in most of the county, businesses tend to choose more accessible areas to locate in. Many of our young people tend to move to other places when they graduate from high school, leaving this a county with a diminishing and aging population.
However, as the pandemic has taught the entire country, people can very successfully work remotely from their homes and avoid the commute to work, provided that there is very fast and very reliable internet connectivity. Certain businesses could also operate very well here if they have that kind of internet access. So, it has become obvious that one way to keep and even grow our younger population is to solve that digital access problem here in the county.
The Pocahontas Broadband Council has been working with the County Commission and the Region 4 Planning and Development Council in an effort to do just that. The Broadband Council meets virtually at 1 PM on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month.
JOIN OUR MEETINGS
Pocahontas County Broadband Council meets on the second Thursday each month at 1:00 PM via Zoom. Our meetings are open to the public. We welcome your attendance! To join Zoom click the link below.
Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83518364215?pwd=a3MwZERMMGY3N1phRy9wcGFpRDFGZz09
Meeting ID: 835 1836 4215
Passcode: 691324
