Stimulus Brings Digital Revolution to Rural Areas: ; Internet Access Could Help Spur Economy, Jobs, Education
Sunday Gazette-Mail › January 31, 2011
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EAST BURKE, Vt. - Up in rural northern Vermont, it took until the 1960s to run power lines to some towns - decades after the rest of America got turned on.
These days, it's the digital revolution that remains but a rumor in much of rural America.See the full content of this document
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Stimulus Brings Digital Revolution to Rural Areas: ; Internet Access Could Help Spur Economy, Jobs, Education
Dial-up user Val Houde knows this as well as anybody. After moving here four years ago, the 51-year-old mother of four took a correspondence course for medical transcription, hoping to work from home. She plunked down $800, took the course, then found out the software wasn't compatible with dial-up Internet, the only kind available to her.
Selling items on eBay, watching videos, playing games online? Forget it. The connection from her home computer is so slow, her online life is one of delays, degraded quality and "buffering" warnin...See the full content of this document
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