Frustrated rural communities fight for lane on information highway

There is growing frustration among some living in rural areas, who find themselves fighting for a lane on the information highway. "Numerous times we're booted off. It's hard to navigate the internet if you have more than one person on, and with three kids and a wife who's an educator, it's very difficult to use the internet sufficiently," says David Poyer, of Deansboro. Numerous calls to provider, Frontier, have brought frustration, not resolution."I literally have to go to a coffee shop and get on a laptop to do estimates, which I think is ridiculous," said Williams.Williams, a member of the Marshall Town Board, also fears that absence of dependable broadband service will hinder development."We've got a lot of upside potential; we've got a lot of farmland that could be developed, but we're being held back by what really I think shouldn't be a factor and that's high-speed broadband."