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Article: Internet ruling may keep rural areas connected.(Granite Geek)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
- Article date:
- November 21, 2008
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There was a pretty important vote earlier this month that will affect New Hampshire and the nation as a whole. Perhaps you heard?
No, probably not; some other election drowned it out.
But the 5-0 decision by the Federal Communications Commission to allow wireless broadband on part of the television spectrum may eventually make a difference in the amount of Internet available in our less-settled areas, in those woody, unpeopled areas up north, or around Peterborough and Keene.
"It offers hope where there might not have been as much before, where business model didn't support (wireless broadband)," said Prof. Michael Carter of UNH's Department of ...