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The 260 residents of ___ Sleep, Wyoming, drive at ___ 26 miles to buy ___ and 112 to catch ___ plane. You wouldn’t expect ___ Internet entrepreneur to launch ___ startup here. But in ___, Kent Holiday did just ___, opening Eleutian Technology, where ___ teachers tutor Asian students ___ English through live online ___. He now employs about ___ teachers around the region.
___ was visiting his in-laws ___ he noticed the local ___ utility laying fiber-optic ___: Ten Sleep was getting ___-speed Internet. In 2011, ___ Obama used Eleutian as ___ example of the Internet’s ___ on rural economic development: “___ local businesses, broadband access ___ helping them grow, prosper ___ compete in a global ___.”
But such access – the ___ modern infrastructure many city-folk take for granted – is far from universal. Of the 19 million Americans who lack broadband access 14.5 million live in rural areas. Thirty percent of Indians living on reservations also lack access.
The more densely populated a place is, the more likely it is to have fast, affordable Internet. When people live far apart, service providers don’t profit enough to cover the costs of building and maintaining the physical infrastructure. If they do provide access, it’s often at higher prices and slower speeds than in urban areas. In the rural West, where 2 million people lack broadband access, topography is also a barrier. Mountains and narrow valleys can block signals from wireless towers and satellites and make it difficult to install fiber-optic cables.
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Have fun....and take care! 249 JUN-B-2014
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Have fun....and take care! 249 JUN-B-2014
