Connect Ohio maps out broadband service

Feb 25, 2010 (The Akron Beacon Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A statewide effort to connect more Ohioans to affordable high-speed Internet service took another step Wednesday, with the launch of an online interactive map that will help consumers and small businesses see options that currently exist.

But the Connect Ohio initiative also sees the map as a way to fuel economic development by helping community leaders and policymakers see gaps in the broadband hole so they can apply for state and federal grants to fill it...