Rural Americans Are Rebooting the Spirit of the Internet

Thirty-nine percent of rural Americans had no access to home broadband in 2016 (compared with 4 percent of folks in urban areas), because big telcos say it’s too expensive to build affordable fiber-optic broadband in the countryside. Residents have to make do with dialup or Wi-Fi from a library.

So co-ops are solving the problem again.

Author: Clive Thompson

https://www.wired.com/story/rural-america-diy-internet-spirit-reboot/