Legislators Mull Solutions To Indiana's Rural Broadband Problem

Eighty-four percent of Hoosiers have broadband internet access. Those that don’t live mostly in rural places – where poor connectivity is an economic problem.

The state legislature heard a range of ideas to fix that problem Thursday in their first of three study committee meetings on rural broadband.

Rep. Dave Ober (R-Noble County) says flat or shrinking populations make for tricky economics that will demand multiple solutions.

“It’s not a silver bullet – it’s silver buckshot,” Ober says. “We’re trying to find of all the approaches that make sense to kind of attack this problem of density.”

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