Research on Rural Broadband Finds Unexpected Results

Route Fifty: While establishing broadband internet connections in rural America is known to offer certain economic benefits, it may not be as effective as some might think when it comes to attracting entrepreneurs and so-called creative class employees to those places.

At least that’s what an academic paper published earlier this summer suggests. Researchers at Oklahoma State University found that as more households in a rural area get broadband, the number of entrepreneurs and creative class employees there may actually go down—not up.

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