Broadband
USDA announces funding for rural broadband expansion
November 14, 2011 | 06:25 PM
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $478.6 million in funding for expansion and improvement of broadband service in rural areas. Read More...
Rural broadband access hearing set in Illinois
September 16, 2011 | 04:55 PM
The House Agriculture subcommittee on Rural Development Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture will hold a hearing on the role of broadband access in rural economic development on Saturday, Sept. 24, in Springfield, Ill., House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., announced today.
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Adelstein: Youth need broadband to stay on the farm
August 23, 2011 | 08:00 AM
Future farmers who attended President Barack Obama’s rural economic forum in Iowa last week said that they would be unwilling to stay in rural areas without high-speed Internet service, Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein said Monday. Read More...
Obama's USDA: Rural Utilities Service administrator: Broadband spending key to rural jobs
March 08, 2011 | 11:38 AM
Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein runs an agency that is renowned for bringing electricity, telephone, water and sewer service to rural America, but that now has a new and challenging mission: to bring high-speed Internet service or broadband to those areas of rural America that have been left out of what has become a necessity for business and personal life. Read More...