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    3. AgriStar high-speed satellite Internet closes digital divide

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    AgriStar Global Networks, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois
    Format:
    News release
    Publication Date:
    2004-12
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21814
    Notes:
    Release distributed by AgPRonline, www.agpronline.com., "100% of rural America now has access to broadband Internet service."

    4. Broad coalition formed to push for rural broadband

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    News article
    Publication Date:
    2020-07-10
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11768
    Notes:
    Report from Agri-Pulse received online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 6 pages., Report of a letter to Capitol Hill and the White House from a new American Connection Project Broadband Coalition calling for a "robust federal investment in broadband internet connectivity." Letter (attached) signed by 40 ag, tech, and healthcare groups.

    8. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reports broadband unavailable to 21.3 million Americans, BroadbandNow study indicates 42 million do not have access

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Busby, John (author) and Tanberk, Julia (author)
    Format:
    Research summary
    Publication Date:
    2020-02-03
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11769
    Notes:
    Online from BroadbandNow, a registered trademark of Centerfield BBN LLC. 3 pages., Whereas the FCC reports that broadband is unavailable to 21.3 million Americans, BroadbandNow Research analyzed FCC Form 477 data and estimated that 42 million Americans do not have the ability to purchase broadband internet. This is an additional 6.5 percent of Americans beyond FCC estimates.

    9. Getting online for a better off-line life: for organizers, digital divide is part of power divide

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wolfson, Todd (author), Mercer, Bryan (author), and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York.
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2009-05
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30692
    Notes:
    2 pages.