The prospects for broadband deployment in rural America |
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| Institution: | 1. Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York;2. Holy Cross Orthopedic Institute, Fort Lauderdale Florida;3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;1. Professor, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI;2. Associate Professor, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY;3. Graduate Research Associate, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI;4. Associate Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;5. Assistant Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;6. Doctor of Chiropractic, Retired, Pocatello, ID;7. Doctor of Chiropractic, Private Practice of Chiropractic, Wake Forest, NC;8. Doctor of Chiropractic, Private practice of chiropractic, Greensboro, NC;9. Doctor of Chiropractic, Private Practice of Chiropractic, Cary, NC;10. Research Associate, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN |
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| Abstract: | A great deal of policy attention over the past two years has been directed at insuring that more communities within the country have access to high speed or “broadband” connections. The 1996 Telecommunications Act promises through its universal service provisions that telecommunications services will be roughly comparable across urban and rural areas, but the rapid development of new Internet-based services and the networks on which they depend illustrates huge discrepancies in broadband availability. This paper analyzes some of the programs and policies that claim to address this network divide, using existing data to comment on their efficacy. These analyses suggest that the prospects for near-term broadband services in rural region are dim, and that the existing policy approaches appear insufficient to achieve the goal of widespread rural deployment. |
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