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Article: Speeding up rural Internet service Stimulus provides funds to expand broadband access
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2009
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From his home in Richland County, Jordan Maclay reaches for the
stars but has trouble getting on the Internet.
The retired quantum physics professor is among thousands of rural
Wisconsin residents frustrated over a lack of fast, reliable access
to the Web for business and personal use.
With a little luck, that could change. The federal economic
stimulus bill includes $7.2 billion in grants, loans and loan
guarantees to extend broadband Internet to underserved rural areas.
Some of the money is set aside to bring broadband service to
libraries and other public facilities.
In general, broadband is a high-speed Internet connection capable
of moving large amounts of data through fiber-optic ...