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Rural Minnesotans on the wrong side of the digital divide

Minnesota is facing a problem not uncommon to states these days. Rural residents are being left in the dust when it comes to access to high speed internet services. Affirming this claim is a report from the Center for Rural Policy and Development, a nonprofit based in St. Peter, Minnesota. The organization, which evaluates issues from a rural perspective, recently published their 2006 Rural Internet Study analyzing internet accessibility in rural versus urban areas. Read More »

Small Texas Towns, High Speed Connections

Clint, TX may only have 1,000 residents, but, like other small towns in Texas, it's being opened up to new opportunities thanks to high-speed Internet. Read More »

Klobuchar Criticizes Rural-Access Cuts

In response to President Bush's budget, Minnesota's new Senator, Amy Klobuchar, decried cuts to a program providing loans to assist communities in creating Internet infrastructure. Read More »

Getting the Facts in New York

A recent study shows that New York appears to have one of the highest rates of broadband access in the country; however this new data highlights the need for improved mapping. Read More »

DSL on the rise

For much of the world, DSL is the most common way to access the Internet; in the U.S., however, more consumers get high-speed Internet access via cable. Read More »

New Report: Speeding Up Our Internet and Our Economy

Technology has been a driving force behind the United States' ascension to the top of the global economy. But as the 21st Century unfolds, we are seriously lagging when it comes to high speed internet access. Americans pay far more for much slower speeds than most other developed countries. Last week, we released a new whitepaper, "Speed Matters: Affordable High Speed Internet for All", to explain the problem and explore solutions. Read More »

Texas toasts the rest of the country in growth of broadband availability

High speed Internet is rolling out eight times faster in Texas than the in the rest of the country, thanks, in part, to increased competition among broadband providers. Read More »

Americans Choose Higher Speeds

According to a new Nielsen/NetRatings survey, 78% of home internet users have broadband. Read More »

We’re #1!

The research is in: Americans can't live without broadband Internet. Read More »

Hope for rural communities

This past September, at the tail end of the legislative session, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) introduced a landmark bill to expand our high speed internet infrastructure: Rural Broadband Initiative Act of 2006. Read More »

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