Rolling wheat fields are also Wi-Fi country:
A large investor-owned company was not going to put in the needed infrastructure to allow us to bridge that digital divide here in rural America,” Husted said. “If someone was going to do it, it was going to have to be us.
A 1,500 sq mi hotspot? Read through this and look how many ways folks are finding to use this: there’s so much talk of networking in densely populated areas but doesn’t it make sense to want to connect nodes that are farther apart? And note the references to rural electrification: does that give any idea how much the Internet has penetrated people’s lives, even in agricultural areas like eastern Washington?
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