Source: Matthew Burns, WRAL, 5/29/18


Rural communities need to band together and pool government and private funding to extend broadband internet service to their homes and businesses, experts said Tuesday. Broadband access was the first issue addressed during the annual Rural Day conference in Raleigh, and all agreed the future of many North Carolina counties – from student achievement to economic development – is both online and on the line.

For more of this story, click here.