Martin Gottlieb: High-speed Internet access in rural areas not easy, but doable

Lots of people in this country still don’t have access to high-speed Internet service. At least not via cable. They might be able to get satellite service, but it’s expensive and often just doesn’t provide what the many millions now take for granted.

The reason for the absence of high-speed cable is that stringing it in sparsely populated areas is often not profitable.

So no one would be too surprised to learn that most of the places in Ohio that do not have broadband are in the rural eastern part of the state and along the southern border, east of Cincinnati.

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