Rural America not ready for broadband? Hogwash, say ISPs | Benton Foundation

May 11, 2009

A question from the Benton Foundation's broadband stimulus discussion last week: "One of the studies that we see most frequently is one from Pew which contends that there isn't very much demand [for broadband] in rural areas, [which] is why it hasn't been built out." What did the panelists think of that? "It clearly is a myth," declared Gary Evans of Hiawatha Broadband Communications, a rural ISP based in Minnesota...