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More targeted data critical to bridge rural broadband divide

News | 08/03/2018 9:28 am EDT
A map of the Township of Chatsworth which visualizes household density in the yellow and purple hexagons, derived from land parcel data by SWIFT. Data analysis reveals that there are unnamed household clusters to the south west and north east of Williamsford. / Image via SWIFT.

Matt Rapke doesn’t need a map to figure out that identifying ‘unnamed’ rural and remote places is a fundamental aspect of deploying broadband in those areas, because he comes from one such town.

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