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Broadband Toolkit Assists Virginia’s Rural Communities
How can rural local governments expect development without broadband access? It’s hard to imagine doing business without high-speed Internet, yet most broadband providers won’t touch a locality that doesn’t have the population to make service profitable.
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) is trying to help local governments change that. The agency recently announced a toolkit downloadable from its Web site that guides rural localities to existing resources that may help make broadband a reality.
For example, Virginia law allows local governments to make available for free any public-sector radio tower to a private-sector broadband provider. A WiMAX provider could attach a transmitter to a tower and avoid the cost of building its own.
By Andy Opsahl, Features Editor
Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/422521
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