When people think of farmers and agriculture they very rarely think of smartphones and laptops in the same thought. But the reality is that broadband acess is becoming more and more a key part of the daily life of rural America. A recent article showed that 4 years ago 38% of farmers in Wisconsin used internet access for business  and today that number is up to 42%. That shows some potential but the other fact [...]

Everyday i read more tweets, articles and posts from people speaking out against the AT&T /T-mobile claiming higher prices and other constraints to competition but at the same time i see Sprint get the Iphone4s and be in a position to compete with any other carrier. But as these small wins are won on either side i feel like there is one area that is being neglected, Rural America. They don’t represent Big gains for [...]

We all know we take for granted the access we have to Internet. We complain if we can’t find a wifi hotspot, when we walk into an area with a low wireless, and always complain about the prices we pay for these services. Well imagine if all those complaints went away because you didn’t have access to the most basic of wireless services. Those complaints would seem small in comparison. Well that is plight of [...]

Things being posted around the web that caught my attention today Net Neutrality “You see, this is why we should have Net Neutrality regulations, because if this ever happens they can stop it” That title sounds silly, right? Well, that’s most of what the pro-Net Neutrality sites are using as the basis of their arguments. Here is another article  that tries to “mis-educate” people on Net Neutrality  by posing hypothetical  fear scenarios based on things that have never [...]

Between health care reform, climate bills and war-related news, some important ideas in Congress are not getting as much attention as they deserve.    I just wanted to bring a little more notice to bi-partisan draft language submitted by Reps. Rick Boucher of Virginia and Lee Terry of Nebraska “to curb waste in the Universal Service Fund (USF) and shift money from phone to Internet service in areas on the wrong side of the digital divide.” [...]