{"id":703,"date":"2009-04-23T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/23\/is-broadband-the-holy-grail-for-rural-towns\/"},"modified":"2009-04-23T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:39:00","slug":"is-broadband-the-holy-grail-for-rural-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/23\/is-broadband-the-holy-grail-for-rural-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Is broadband the holy grail for rural towns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/22\/AR2009042203637.html?hpid=topnews\">a fascinating story today<\/a> about the divergent paths of two small towns in Virginia that managed to tap into high-speed broadband data lines.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many high-tech companies have heralded a January report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a research organization, that stated that an investment of $10 billion in broadband networks across the country would create nearly 500,000 jobs, including the hard-hat jobs digging trenches and laying fiber lines. Other positions would come from businesses that rise from high-tech innovation and better productivity, the report said.  <\/p>\n<p>But some economists have questioned such predictions, saying that bringing high-speed Internet to rural areas is much more complicated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the idea that some sort of magical economic development will occur, there is no evidence that that can happen,&#8221; said Robert W. Crandall, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has studied the issue.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has a fascinating story today about the divergent paths of two small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}