With all the headlines about the lack of broadband in rural America, you’d be forgiven for thinking that all small towns are stuck in the dark age of dial-up internet. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Matt Dunne (@MattDunneVT), a former Vermont state senator and previously head of community affairs at Google, is founder of the Center on Rural Innovation. The untold story of rural broadband is that over the past seven years, independent broadband networks have proliferated.

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