Wired Wisconsin: New federal data shows Wisconsin trailing in broadband access, number of providers

MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin is among the worst ranked states in the country in terms of high-speed broadband Internet access and the percentage of households with multiple wireline providers, according to new data released by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last week.

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COLUMN: NE Ohio region ahead of tech race; keep up pace

Crain's Cleveland Business

Back in the days when change could take generations and geographic location and natural resources largely determined a community's economic potential, Cleveland was among the wealthiest and most entrepreneurial communities in the world. Needless to say, we have lost that edge.

But even in an era when technology facilitates change seemingly overnight, Northeast Ohio has tremendous resources and a terrific opportunity to reinvent itself as a leader in the 21st-century knowledge economy.

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Tapping the Web, 22,000 miles up

New York Times

Satellite companies have been the also-rans of Internet providers.

They serve a little more than one million customers, most in rural areas that have no other options. Their services can be painfully slow and cost twice as much as high-speed broadband.

But two companies, WildBlue and HughesNet, are now in a race to change all that. Both plan to launch satellites in the next couple of years that will dwarf their predecessors in space.

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