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tral office in Sperryville.”
Embarq serves the northern part of the county. Verizon serves the southern half.
Installing equipment in the field outside of the central office is “very capital intensive"’ and is not economically viable in a rural area like Rappahannock, Knapp said.
Knapp added that many people in business and government are trying to figure out how to make universal broadband service economically viable.
County Administrator John McCarthy said Rappahannock's low population density makes Internet access difficult to provide to all residents.
“Not only do we have a relatively low population density county-wide, but that’s made worse by the fact that we don’t even have one place that has a large concentration of people,” he said. “In our case, were spread out evenly across the landscape.”
Knapp said the solution in rural areas will likely have to be some sort of wireless technology, either accessed by a cell phone, satellite or wireless fidelity (also known as Wi-Fi) signal. Wi-Fi is the type of local wireless network often found in
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