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Reaching rural America with broadband internet service

  • Written by Sharon Strover, Director, Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute; Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Telecommunications wires stretch along a rural Kansas road.Technology & Information Policy Institute, University of Texas, CC BY-ND

All across the U.S., rural communities’ residents are being left out of modern society and the 21st century economy. I’ve traveled to Kansas, Maine, Texas and other states studying internet access and...

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