| Rural Broadband providers should get some of the money. Here in Washington state we have been lucky as some of the local PUDs (Public Utility District) have built (and continue) to build out fiber networks with access to homes that are truely rural.
These PUDs should get some of that $350,000 dollars to continue it's deployment as one PUD in particular is backing down on their fiber optic expansion due to economics leaving some people with no other alternative but satellite.
Grant County in WA state landed two (Yahoo and Microsoft) companies to build huge server farms thanks to the availability of cheap electricity and to a great fiber optic network that the PUD deployed.
Grant county is still building out their network throughout the county reaching into more people's homes and with 100/100MBps speeds for around $40 per month.
Besides the internet, there is phone and tv programming available from these fiber networks.
Grant County:
»www.gcpud.org/customerService/se···iber.htm
Douglas County with some 100MB ISP providers: »www.dccn.net/
Chelan County which is halting expansion:
»fiber.chelanpud.org/euedu/
Funny, Verizon hasn't stepped into these areas with their FIOS but guess what?...no need for them! |
