Broadband is the most important infrastructure investment a community can make,especially as a new generation of connection is upon us: ultra-broadband.
The Risks and Rewards of Municipal Broadband
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Disconnected: Seven Lessons on Fixing the Digital Divide
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Communities across the country are in an economic race. To compete, they need employers and qualified workers, both of which require a robust information- and knowledge-sharing infrastructure. While some communities are ahead of the pack, others are falling far behind.
Broadband is a critical component in this economic race, allowing businesses large and small to reach customers, farmers to deploy resource-saving technologies, and workers to learn critical job skills.
DEEDP Broadband Research
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Beginning in mid-2017, DEEDP endeavored to answer several questions arising surrounding broadband and its impact on rural Missouri. Key questions included broadband’s impact on out-migration and in-migration, the impact of low services, slow speed broadband and relatively high prices compared to areas with fiber’s high-speed broadband and low prices. In the analysis the economic and social impact of high-speed broadband was both qualitatively and quantitatively presented in an easy to understand format designed for policy makers and business executives.
The Social Impact of Broadband: A Case Study of Red Cliff, Colorado
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This paper examines the lengthy process the town experienced on its journey to connectivity, and it measures the impact broadband has had on Red Cliff residents.
Electric Cooperatives Bring High-Speed Communications to Underserved Areas
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This report is an updated and revised edition of NRECA’s 2019 report, “Electric Cooperatives Bring High-Speed Communications to Underserved Areas.” The original report summarized findings from NRECA’s 2018 series of twelve case studies of electric cooperatives that have entered the broadband communications business. This new version of the report summarizes the original 2018 case studies, with updated information,plus another eight case studies completed by NRECA in 2019.
A Case For Rural Broadband
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Insights on Rural Broadband Infrastructure and Next Generation Precision Agriculture Technologies
BRINGING BROADBAND TO A MISSOURI COMMUNITY
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On June 1, 2020, nearly one hundred individuals in locations throughout Missouri and
across the United States gathered “online” to help develop a “Plan” to bring broadband to a
Missouri community — Bollinger County.
Revised Statutes of Missouri Section 364.085
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Effective 2018, statute specifically authorizes rural electric cooperatives and their affiliates to offer broadband service and to enter into cooperative arrangements for that purpose.
Does 5G Have the Potential to Make the Digital Divide Worse?
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Due to new technology’s inherent likelihood to leave segments of the population behind, experts and stakeholders say government must work to ensure small-cell network rollouts benefit the whole of communities.
Commentary: Broadband is a necessary utility. Let’s treat it like one
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There was a time when telephone lines did not span the U.S., proudly marking the landscape in nearly every conceivable populated area. But telephones, as with refrigerators and light bulbs before them, soon became essential.