Story from something called Cronkite News, which discusses FCC “Connect America Fund” and “National Broadband Plan” issues in Arizona rural areas. FCC said to have examined satellite and not favorable towards that as solution. Presently.
Despite Federal Communication Commission subsidies to bring broadband to remote areas, and competition from at least 17 state-regulated rural phone service providers in Arizona, more than one-third of the state’s rural residents lacked broadband access last year. The FCC said then that 238,549 Arizonans were without broadband, the 10th-lowest rate of penetration in the country.
I’m following the broadband access in Washington State, in Jefferson County, a rural community where I now live part of the year. The State did well with BTOP working through NOAnet-NorthWest Open Access network founded by utility districts in 2000:
http://www.noanet.net/pdfs/NoaNet%20Spring%202013%20Progress%20Report%20Mailer%20FINAL.pdf
The anchor institutions included all of the usual with a good amount of community centers in the mix.
Maybe turn your comment with the link into a post…and save the pdf to PSA website…?