Rural Broadband: Let's Talk About Cost
Daily Yonder, November 4, 2009
By Nick Muntean
The story of how the federal government helped bring electricity to rural America teaches an important lesson to those who are now deciding how to spend $7 billion on extending broadband to the countryside. It's this: Cost is just as important as build-out. In fact, affordability of broadband is probably more important than its availability.
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