Rural Policy Research Institute, August 19, 2005
By Thomas D. Rowley

The claim last month from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin that "we are well on our way to accomplishing the president's goal of universal, affordable access to broadband by 2007," may come as something of a surprise to the 90 percent of rural Americans who have no broadband at home. Perhaps it's just a question of definition.

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