Walden Think+Up case study: Bringing Broadband to Rural America
June 4, 2009
Roxboro, N.C., wasn’t always a town struggling to survive. “We used to be able to attract industries because of our community college, plenty of water, good churches, good schools, and good people. But we can’t attract them now,” laments Thomas Brown, mayor of Roxboro, the city and county seat of Person County. “It seems like, these days, all industries want are tremendous incentives.”
One of those incentives is broadband connectivity, says Brown, noting that Roxboro—population 8,696—“has lost almost all of its industries.” Nearly 40% of Person County’s population doesn’t have high-speed Internet access despite its close proximity to North Carolina’s Research Triangle region, home to numerous high-tech companies and enterprises...
Roxboro, N.C., wasn’t always a town struggling to survive. “We used to be able to attract industries because of our community college, plenty of water, good churches, good schools, and good people. But we can’t attract them now,” laments Thomas Brown, mayor of Roxboro, the city and county seat of Person County. “It seems like, these days, all industries want are tremendous incentives.”
One of those incentives is broadband connectivity, says Brown, noting that Roxboro—population 8,696—“has lost almost all of its industries.” Nearly 40% of Person County’s population doesn’t have high-speed Internet access despite its close proximity to North Carolina’s Research Triangle region, home to numerous high-tech companies and enterprises...
posted by Connect Ohio at
10:55 AM
<< Home