Jason Nark
How can President Biden help rural America? Fix the internet
In his inaugural speech, President Joe Biden noted the various factions at odds with one another in America, including a rural and urban divide.
Internet speeds were awful, so these rural Pennsylvanians put up their own wireless tower
Big Valley is a living postcard of Pennsylvania. But they had slow, unreliable, and expensive internet. The government couldn’t help. Private suppliers have long said improved speeds were too costly to provide for such a sparsely populated area. So a group of mostly retirees banded together and took a frontier approach to a modern problem. They built their own wireless network, using radio signals instead of expensive cable. “We just wanted better internet service up our valley.
Penn State study finding rural broadband speeds are even slower than suspected
Pennsylvania State University researchers rounding the bend on a year-long study of broadband access in rural Pennsylvania are finding that speeds are even slower than previously thought. Bradford County, on the NY border in Northeastern PA, has slow connectivity speeds, but according to the most recent map available from the Penn State study, it's not among the worst.