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Cooperatives formed in the 1930s to bring electricity to rural America are getting into the broadband business, now that it’s communication and information that power the economy

Allamakee-Clayton cooperative general manager Paul Foxwell said high speed Internet connections could spur development and stem the flow of young people to the cities.

His cooperative got a $1.4 million grant under a 2014 federal program to build infrastructure that includes wireless stations and repeaters, and the Forest Mills Quilt Shop is among its first several hundred fixed wireless subscribers.

"Rural America was being left in the dark with the extension of electricity outside the cities," said Jasen Bronec, CEO of the Delta-Montrose Electric Association.

By DONNA BRYSON

Full Story: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/8b9d76758a24466bbc2eec8816c788b9/US–Rural-Broadband

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