We ARE going to get there from here. The Backroads Broadband Program, which was proposed by Governor Jim Douglas in his State of the State address to the legislature last week, is aimed at making broadband available to the last most-difficult 5% or so of Vermont residences, which are sparsely scattered along remote dirt roads or on the wrong side of signal-blocking hills and mountains. The proposed plan helps the economics of telecom providers that serve the very difficult to serve by accelerating the signup rate so that these providers can get a faster return on their investment than they would otherwise and so Vermonters get the advantage of being online sooner rather than later.
Read more.... http://blog.tomevslin.com/2010/01/backroads-broadband.html
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