Washington County, New York, Residents Unhappy With Broadband Service, Survey Finds
More than half of respondents to a survey on broadband in Washington County, New York, said they were dissatisfied, said a broadband and telecom report released last week. The survey was mailed to the 29,400 postal addresses in the county…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
and saw replies from 2,856 households and businesses. Of those who responded, 20 percent said they had no option for broadband, the report said. The report was done by the Washington County Planning and Economic Development Department and partially funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Adirondack Gateway Council. The report compares expanding rural Internet to the rural electrification in the 1930s, saying expanding broadband is just as important as getting electricity to all residents. The survey found that 90 percent of the country's residents use Time Warner Cable (26 percent), satellite (22 percent), Verizon Wireless (11.7 percent), Verizon DSL (11.2 percent), Hudson Valley Wireless (5.2 percent) or dial-up (3.5 percent) for broadband.