These rural families were worried their kids were falling behind without high-speed Internet, but Comcast said it would take $80,000 to serve their community. So they did it themselves for less — and will break even at just 30 subscribers. (whyynews)
The set up on Stone Mountain consists of a radio tower, solar panels and an equipment room and is key to how the Rural Broadband Cooperative is delivering broadband internet to its users. In their part of rural Huntingdon County, access to high-speed internet was mostly limited, expensive and unreliable.
Politicians talked about the issue, but nothing was changing. The big telecommunications companies considered his area a non-priority. “You have to get above the trees and the mountain level,” Diven said. “And that’s how we’re doing it.” This specific receiver mounted on the radio tower points at another radio dish at Allensville, where a nearby fibre optic network turns into radio signal. Companies have long complained that providing service to rural areas like this is a money-losing business.
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