{"id":3270,"date":"2011-11-30T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2011-11-30T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:00:27","slug":"rural-america-needs-better-broadband-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/rural-america-needs-better-broadband-access\/","title":{"rendered":"OP-ED: Rural America Needs Better Broadband Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Scott Stevens, The Oregonian | I have been a broadband consultant for more than a decade. I have provided broadband policy input to both Democratic and Republican policymakers and have been involved in expanding rural broadband throughout the Pacific Northwest and United States. While as a state and country we have made substantial progress on the broadband front, we have not come far enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A digital divide exists in Oregon and the United States where entire communities lack access to high-speed broadband and the economic, educational, health and other benefits accompanying that access. While there is wide agreement that next-generation technology is critically important to the economic future of communities across our nation, the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s rural broadband report found that 28.2 percent of rural Americans lack access to high-speed broadband.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I just stopped by a store in rural central Oregon and the storeowner had to get off the phone to run my credit card. This is substantial in a few ways: 1) broadband would allow simultaneous use of voice and data, 2) credit cards authorized over dial-up are prone to additional fees (on low-margin and small-ticket items, such as my snack, this could mean a loss) and 3) cellular service is inadequate to augment landline voice or provide &#8220;pseudo-broadband&#8221; through 3G services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2011\/11\/rural_america_needs_better_bro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Stevens, The Oregonian | I have been a broadband consultant for more than a decade. I have provided broadband policy input to both Democratic and Republican policymakers and have been involved in expanding rural broadband throughout the Pacific Northwest and United States. 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