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In recent years Arizona has seen improvement in its broadband landscape. The greater metropolitan areas have an increasing broadband options. Many rural communities, however, do not have access to broadband last-mile services such as cable modem, DSL, or wireless.Despite their urgent need for broadband, only 78 percent of Arizonan’s have access to the internet in their home (2). Approximately 898,724 Arizona citizens—mostly in rural and tribal communities—have limited or no access to high-speed internet, creating a digital divide between communities that can or cannot participate in global opportunities for education and economy.
According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2016 Broadband Progress Report (3), 13 percent of Arizona’s total population still does not have broadband access; of the population lacking such access, 410,794, or 63 percent, reside in rural areas. Meanwhile, 95 percent of the tribal population has no broadband access. (Extracted from the Arizona Broadband Plan 2018) |
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