LOCAL NEWS: Rural Internet series: Clatkanie internet Co-op aims to fill rural broadband gaps

August 27, 2020 00:03:47
LOCAL NEWS: Rural Internet series: Clatkanie internet Co-op aims to fill rural broadband gaps
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LOCAL NEWS: Rural Internet series: Clatkanie internet Co-op aims to fill rural broadband gaps

Aug 27 2020 | 00:03:47

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Show Notes

Most rural Clatsop County customers don’t know it, but there’s a huge fiberoptic internet highway running through their region. They wouldn’t think so, because their own internet service is probably slow, expensive and limited. They often can’t tap into this pipeline, because companies that own it, like Centurylink, don’t think it’s worth the money to install the infrastructure to serve the isolated hamlets and neighborhoods outside urban areas. So the bandwidth breezes by on underground cables where they can’t use it. Joanne Rideout takes a look at a local Oregon internet provider in Clatskanie that’s aiming to change that. Footnote:...

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