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Broadband Access still a Dream for Many . . In today’s world you might think that the last people to be reached by broadband service would be those in remote or rural locations, particularly given the fact that many of us in North American urban centres likely consider broadband access and affordability to an inexorable and ubiquitous part of our very existence. In fact, I’ll admit that I’ve long considered city life and broadband access to exist hand-in-handbut not so.... A new study conducted on behalf of the Wireless Broadband Alliance has found that the digital divide has really nothing to do with urban or rural living, and discovered that shockingly 57 percent of the world’s urban population remains unconnected, lacking either fixed or wireless broadband service. To put in another way, in a classic tale of haves and have-nots, being part of the so-called unconnected billionsand by the study’s own numbers, it’s about 2.2 billion people unconnected in cities alonehas little to do with where you live within a given country, and everything to do with how much money you have while living there. According to the findings of the study, conducted by research group Maravedis, there not only exists a shockingly high number of unconnected people within city centres, but within each of those individual cities there exists a wide disparity of broadband access. This means that a sizeable population percentage inside many large cities is excluded from the digital age, either because they cannot afford the service or because the service is simply not available in their neighbourhood.

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