Category: Broadband
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Broadband internet expansion no silver bullet for rural Georgia
(Editor’s Note: This column was initially published in today’s edition of the Georgia Recorder. It was submitted as a counterpoint to a piece that ran earlier this week in the Recorder.) Four years ago, I spoke to the opening day session of the House Rural Development Council about my research into the alarming decline of…
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The real problem with HB 887: it starts in the wrong place
Yesterday I posted an initial piece dissecting some of the mechanics of House Bill 887, the Georgia Communications Services Tax Act, and said I’d loop back for a second swing at “the real problem” with the bill. Here goes. The real problem is that it proposes to serve the wrong areas – or at least…
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The rural broadband train arrives at the Gold Dome. Grab your wallet.
Last May I was asked to present some of my Trouble in God’s Country research to the opening session of the House Rural Development Council down in Tifton. The first question I got after completing my presentation was about something I hadn’t even touched on – the idea of running broadband to rural Georgia. The…