If Broadband Is the New Interstate Highway ... Why Are We Settling for Two-Lane Blacktop?
Rutland Herald, July 10, 2008
Wired broadband connections in 2008 are the equivalent of the interstate highway project of the 1960s, and the rural electrification projects of the 1940s. Broadband is the strategic infrastructure of our time, and should be treated as the crucial public investment that it represents. If we fail to invest in this infrastructure we will be passed by other regions that are making these investments.
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