PC Magazine - USA (2020-03)

@cmangis Finally, take a look at our last page, The Why Axis.

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these days. But if you thought the Digital Divide

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most recent Broadband Deployment Report.

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may be underreporting by 50 percent the number

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connectivity. The real number, according to

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mostly in rural areas.

We need to do better. The FCC has to correct its

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need funding. And funding to get more people

online—particularly the underserved rural poor—

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be available to everyone.

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