By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal
A group of private and public organizations said that, for less than $20 billion, every unserved rural school, library, health provider and community college in the country that doesn’t already have high-capacity broadband could get it and share it out. In a new study, the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition proposed that high-speed internet be fed to these “anchor institutions,” which could then act as “middle-mile” providers to distribute the service to surrounding users through a mix of wired and wireless technologies.
https://thejournal.com/articles/2018/02/20/cost-to-connect-rural-america-19-billion-or-less.aspx
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from Educational Technology http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/?p=37120
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