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With a stroke of a pen, the Federal Communications Commission could connect millions of minorities and poor Americans to broadband. It is a well documented fact that in the United States there are two distinct groups: the broadband haves, and the broadband have nots. Recently the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration released a survey that found that over a third of people in this country do not access broadband at home. Nearly the same percentage do not have access to the Internet anywhere else. The survey also specifies that over 13 million minority American households do not...

Nov. 15, 2004, 12:48AM On The Road Rest stops to offer wireless Internet Free wireless access to the Internet will soon be available at 102 highway rest stops across Texas. ADVERTISEMENT The Texas Department of Transportation announced last month that it has signed an agreement with Road Connect, an Austin-based company, to install wireless access points at the rest areas within the next year. Seven rest areas already provide access to the World Wide Web using wireless fidelity. Andy Keith, TxDOT's rest area program manager, said those access points will be upgraded to provide additional services. Five vendors submitted proposals...