JamieW
@ky.gov
| Thank You For Your Attention
As someone who lives in Rural USA, paying 4 times more for less than par satellite internet, I am frustrated with the lack of attention as well. Here in Kentucky, our ConnectKentucky alliance brags about 97% percent broadband coverage (it was supposed to be 100 by end of '07), yet I don't have it, my neighbors don't have it, heck my entire town doesn't have it. Right next to our phone exchange building is someone dependant on Wildblue for their internet. They make these false, or at least very broad assumptions that everyone has it, because those that fought for it, and now have it themselves, no longer speak for those that still need it.
The idea the people roll their eyes about farmers is so upsetting to me. We no longer farm, but those that do provide our cities with the ammenities needed to survive. Rural folks are just as tech savvie as the average joe living within city limits. They have to be to keep their business going. After all, farming is a business like any other. Farms need to stay modern to keep pace with the growing needs of the world population. Otherwise, they would still be laying down plots with a plow and mule.
I get my news about "Rural Broadband" via Google News Search and I get several emails related to it daily, but the articles derive primarily from the UK, Australia and India. U.S. articles are exceptions to the rule and usually come from this site or small local papers found in states like Vermont. Nothing really on a mainstream national level.
I appreciated your article here and I hope others making the search find it and give their feedback as well. |
