Rural Stanly County is an attractive place. But in terms of broadband, it is between a rock and a hard place. It sits between two soon-to-be Google Gigabit communities, with Charlotte to its west and Raleigh to its east, but as a rural county, it basically knows that Google is never coming their way. County officials worry that without Gigabit broadband, its young people and its businesses wil…
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CLIC-NC supports the three central pillars of CLIC: That the Internet is essential 21st century infrastructure, that local communities are the lifeblood of America, and that local communities must be able to make their own broadband choices. These principles are particularly critical in North Carolina, where half of the population live in rural areas, because of the deepening urban-rural di…
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