Indiana Study: Rural Broadband Would Provide Billions in Economic Benefits
Posted on Sep 4, 2018 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Indiana Study: Rural Broadband Would Provide Billions in Economic Benefits
A Purdue University study, which examined the costs, benefits and investments of broadband deployment in seven cooperative territories, has found that broadband internet access in those rural areas could mean $12 billion in economic benefits for Indiana. According to Tom VanParis, CEO of Indiana Electric Cooperatives, the areas of Indiana that lack affordable and reliable high-speed internet are largely the same as those served by electric cooperatives.
