BY DAN VOORHIS,The Wichita Eagle
About 36,500 people in rural areas of the four-county Wichita area do not have access to high-speed Internet, with about half of those in Sedgwick County, according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The survey is part of an effort to document the need for rural broadband Internet service. The FCC is redirecting money it spends subsidizing rural telephone service to subsidizing the installation of broadband into rural areas. In Kansas overall, 231,000 people in Kansas, or 8.3 percent of the population, lack access to broadband. In four western Kansas counties, more than half of residents lack access to broadband.
http://www.kansas.com/2011/07/27/1950948/about-36500-people-in-wichita.html
Share on Facebook