The overlooked underserved: reversing the trend - FierceTelecom

The Federal Communications Commission recently held a field hearing to further explore broadband adoption issues, specifically among members of rural and minority communities. The official hearing took place in Charleston, S.C., but a less formal "roundtable" discussion was held the previous night in the small town of Ravanel, S.C., population of about 1,300.

I make a distinction between the two events, because the challenges to broadband adoption and deployment for each town are different, though the bottom line is the same: people who want and should have broadband access do not...