Even wired tribal libraries are lagging behind on tech

As much as some places in the United States have struggled to get good, affordable, accessible Internet connectivity, one type of spot on the map has struggled even more than most: tribal lands. Broadband deployment in the whole of the U.S. stands at about 65 percent, the Federal Communications Commission found a few years ago, but on tribal lands the official rate is just 10 percent, with “anecdotal evidence suggest[ing] that actual usage rates may be as low as 5 to 8 percent.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/13/tribal-libraries-doing-okay-on-the-internet-lagging-on-tech/

August 14, 2014 by Uncategorized 0

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