154,000 more Ohioans have access to broadband, study says - cleveland.com

Across Ohio, 154,000 more people now have access to broadband Internet than did a year ago, according to Connect Ohio, a state-backed effort to get more people connected.

Ninety-five percent of Ohioans are able to buy Internet speeds of at least 786 kilobits per second, the speed of a basic DSL connection. That's up 3 percent from last year, a report the organization released today shows.

Tom Fritz, Connect Ohio's executive director, said increased broadband availability is the result of infrastructure investments by some of the 76 Internet providers in Ohio whose information Connect Ohio collects...