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Since the economic recession began, people have witnessed layoffs and the closing of businesses, but Bascom Communications still is investing. The company's latest investment is the acquirement of a licensed 700 MHz spectrum, which allows it to provide fixed wireless broadband service to areas that otherwise would not get it.

"We try to do what the Connect Ohio initiative does on our own, which is to offer service to everyone at the best of our ability," Brickner said. Being a local cooperative helps this cause because it can bypass stockholders and major corporations, who focus more on profit than people, he added. Each person who has telephone, cable or wired high-speed Internet is a member of Bascom Communications, and therefore, treated equally...