Report shows that Van Wert lags in Broadband usage

Over the past 15 years, the gap between local and global communities and commerce has closed dramatically. Part of that has been the continuing rise of the Internet and all the benefits that it promises - instantaneous contact with visual and graphic capabilities which allows business and educational people to react as if they were in the same room and not across the country from each other. Of course, none of that is possible without the high speed backbone of Broadband technology.

It is no secret that the Ohio government has been trying to diversify the state's workforce and introduce more industries that do not rely so heavily upon the automotive and manufacturing sectors. With that in mind, the Gov. Ted Strickland's administration set a statewide initiative to see where each of Ohio's 88 counties stand in regards to Broadband technology. Connect Ohio recently released the report for Van Wert County and the results were made available to the public...