Tennessee Appalachians

High-Speed Internet Key to Economic Recovery in Appalachia

High-Speed Internet Key to Economic Recovery in Appalachia CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A rural phone cooperative based in Appalachia has brought some of the fastest Internet in the United States to mountain communities, which has led to what some call an economic miracle in the depressed region. Since 2009, the Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative connected 18,000 people in Jackson and Owsley counties in Kentucky, according to Keith Gabbard, CEO of PRTC. ...(Read More)

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