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14 Sep 2020

In the Wall Street Journal: Rural Families Struggle With Work and School With No Home Internet

by Christopher Mitchell and Jordan Ashby | Date: 14 Sep 2020 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In the WSJ, ILSR’s Christopher Mitchell also explains the failures of US broadband policy that has kept communities from getting connected.… Read More

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5 Jan 2015

Athens, Ohio Learns from Neighbors and Considers Fiber Investments

by Rebecca Toews | Date: 5 Jan 2015 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Recently, we ran a story on the Columbus suburb of Dublin, which has a growing fiber optic network that has paid huge dividends in public savings, economic development, and facilitating technology research with the Ohio State University. Apparently others are … Read More

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