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Private Investment and Federal National Information Infrastructure Policy
Pages 412-415

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From page 412...
... is a national trade association representing nearly 450 small, independently owned and operated telephone systems serving primarily rural areas of the United States and Canard. OPASTCO membership includes both commercial and cooperative telephone companies, which range in size from fewer Can 100 to 50,000 access lines and collectively serve nearly 2 million customers.
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From page 413...
... ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS AND ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS Barrier I: Limited Local Calling Areas Requiring Toll Access The key to affordable information access for residential and small business customers is local access to the networks that provide access to the information providers. Unfortunately, few rural communities have network nodes.
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From page 414...
... Another factor In availability is finding a wing network access provider to connect to an independent telephone company network. To date, only regional Bernet providers have been willing to provide direct independent data network connections.
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From page 415...
... weighting and furler application to data networking equipment are existing mechanisms for recovering the cost of investment and keeping the costs to rural customers at an affordable level. RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUMMARY Standards development, standard equipment, regional hubs, and a single common data network are partial solutions to He problems of providing affordable data network access to rum areas.
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