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Teachme2 bookmarked on 2009-07-06 funding rural Internet_access
  • They will consider projects that provide wired or wireless access starting at
    low-end DSL speeds, but will give priority to projects that promise higher
    speeds. They'll consider an area "underserved" by broadband, and thus eligible
    for grants, if half or fewer of the households can get wired broadband today,
    among other criteria.
  • Besides providing money to create the infrastructure, the funding also can go
    toward training people to use the internet
  • Pew Internet and American Life Project asked households that lacked broadband
    service why they haven't signed up. Lack of availability was ranked fourth,
    given by 14 percent

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  • 06 Jul 09
    teachme2
    Nicole Muth

    funding rural Internet_access

    • They will consider projects that provide wired or wireless access starting at
      low-end DSL speeds, but will give priority to projects that promise higher
      speeds. They'll consider an area "underserved" by broadband, and thus eligible
      for grants, if half or fewer of the households can get wired broadband today,
      among other criteria.
    • Besides providing money to create the infrastructure, the funding also can go
      toward training people to use the internet
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