Billion-Dollar Decisions Depend on Rural Broadband

"These are hundred-million-dollar, billion-dollar decisions being made on people’s crops that are being raised for people living in the cities."

When broadband is available, rural communities put it to use — often in ways unimaginable to those in the cities (or in some offices in Congress).

By Douglas Burns

Full Story: http://www.dailyyonder.com/billion-dollar-decisions-depend-rural-broadband/2009/02/04/1899