The state will neither own nor operate the system. Private service providers will do this using the state's network of educational television towers and some excess state licensed frequencies in the 800Mhz band.
This will work very much like in some cities where the electricity company uses city owned power poles or lines for their distribution.
Oh... I get it now.
They’ll either have to do this or rewrite the laws so that telecom providers have some incentive to increase infrastructure build out.
We aren’t even in the top ten anymore in internet infrastructure growth, and that’s just pathetic.
I mean, we INVENTED the internet...at least, Al Gore did, and he’s sort of one of us. ^_^ (j/k)
So how does that work around here? The nearest school is five miles from here and I know of no ETV towers around here. There's an ETV station out of Augusta, GA that I can pickup and one from Columbia, SC. But both of those cities are an hour's drive away.
Now, maybe they're gonna use cellular towers. But I don't think that would work around here either. There's a tower about a mile from here. And they could put a strong transmitter there that I could use. But what about my transmitter to get back to them? How would that work?