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Growing Fiber Internet in Rural America: A Stimulus Success Story
July 3, 2011 /
If you think the Obama administration’s stimulus package is about digging ditches, you’d be right — at least when it comes to funding broadband efforts in rural areas.
Take for instance the Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation reservations in northwest North Dakota, where the Reservation Telephone Cooperative (ResTel) is putting in a 50-Mbps connection to the Elbowwoods Memorial health care center. That connection, made possible by fiber optic cable and broadband stimulus funds, will enable the center to connect patients to doctors and doctors to specialists.
By Ryan Singel
Full Story: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/rural-fiber-internet/
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