04/06/10
Broadband crucial to rural development
Many Americans that live in rural regions of the nation do not have access to reliable broadband internet. However, there are many that do not subscribe to available broadband access because they don't believe they need it or don't care to use it According to MinnPost.com, rural Minnesotans have yet to grasp that using broadband will improve the quality of education and overall life in their town.
Fifty percent of Americans that live in rural regions do not have broadband access. Meanwhile 68 percent of the nation does use broadband internet at home. The news provider points to lower education and income levels as one of the driving factors.
Broadband internet access can provide people in rural regions of the country with improved education and emergency services, both of which regions lack considerably compared to suburban and urban regions.
The Federal Communications Commission reported in February that 10 percent of Americans that do not have broadband refuse to adopt the technology due to fear of moral corruption of their children. The numbers slant heavily toward this notion in the South and Midwest where people accept and practice more traditional religious doctrine.
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