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List of Figures, Maps, and Tables | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Foreword | ||
Executive Summary | 1 | |
Goals and Recommendations | 15 | |
Introduction | 21 | |
1 | Rural America in the Global Economy | 25 |
1 | The U.S. Rural Economy in the 1990s | 25 |
2 | The Process of Rural Development | 31 |
3 | The Role of Telecommunications | 35 |
4 | The Changing Telecommunications Environment | 36 |
2 | State Telecommunications Players and Policies | 49 |
1 | Two Cultures | 49 |
2 | The Players: State Government Involvement in Telecommunications | 51 |
3 | The Role of the State Legislature | 52 |
4 | The Role of the Executive Branch | 54 |
5 | The Role of the State Regulatory Commissions | 61 |
6 | Regulatory Policies | 67 |
7 | A Growing Role for the Telephone Companies | 77 |
8 | Conclusions | 79 |
3 | Rural Development Players: State and Local Initiatives | 81 |
1 | The Culture of Rural Development | 81 |
2 | State and Local Agencies with Links to Rural Development and Telecommunications | 82 |
3 | Telecommunications and Rural Employment | 85 |
4 | Applications for Health Care and Emergency Services | 92 |
5 | Distance Education and Rural Development | 94 |
6 | Bridging the Gap | 110 |
4 | Local Perspectives on Telecommunications and Development: Four Community Studies | 113 |
1 | Background | 113 |
2 | Questions Raised by Earlier Research | 114 |
3 | The Four Communities | 117 |
4 | Strategies for Development at the Local Level | 123 |
5 | The Demand Profile for Rural Telecommunications Services | 128 |
6 | Cultivating the Development Point of View: Policy Implications | 132 |
5 | Rural Telecommunications and Economic Development in Washington State: A Case Study | 139 |
1 | Background | 140 |
2 | The AT&T Divestiture Prompts New Concern | 142 |
3 | Developing a Vision of Rural Telecommunications | 145 |
4 | Refining the Research, Spreading the Word | 146 |
5 | Sustained Momentum for Change | 151 |
6 | Lessons Learned | 157 |
6 | Telecommunications and Rural Development: Quantitative Analyses | 161 |
1 | Why Quantitative Analysis? | 161 |
2 | Gaps in Earlier Research | 162 |
3 | National Time Series Data | 164 |
4 | The Data from the Pacific Northwest | 166 |
5 | The Telecommunications Connection | 181 |
7 | Building Electronic Byways: Goals and Recommendations | 183 |
1 | The Vision | 183 |
2 | Recommendations for State Governors and Legislators | 186 |
3 | Goals and Recommendations for Development Agencies | 193 |
4 | Goals and Recommendations for State Regulatory Commissions | 198 |
5 | Recommendations for Telecommunications Providers | 224 |
6 | How Can These Recommendations Be Paid For? | 229 |
Appendix A: Trends in Upgrading the Rural Telecommunications Infrastructure | 231 | |
Appendix B: U.S. Rural Telecommunications: Organizations and Agencies | 239 | |
Appendix C: Oregon and Washington County Data | 257 | |
Appendix D: State Telecommunications Infrastructure Measures | 263 | |
Glossary | 269 | |
References | 281 | |
Index | 291 |
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