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Brian Depew of the Center for Rural Affairs on the importance of rural broadband, as reported by Kim Severson for the New York Times:

“You often hear people talk about broadband from a business development perspective, but it’s much more significant than that […] This is about whether rural communities are going to participate in our democratic society. If you don’t have effective broadband, you are cut out of things that are really core to who we are as a country.”

Internet access is a public utility.