Benefits of Broadband

• Education – Bring dynamic resources into the classroom while enabling seamless communication and partnering among teachers, students and parents.
• Health Care – Create shared services that reduce operating costs and provide patients with a broader spectrum of enhanced services, including remote diagnostics, administration, scheduling, and electronic patient records.
• Public Safety and Emergency Response – Rapidly connecting response teams with vital information improves coordinated, timely reaction to accidents and disasters. Citizens also benefit by gaining access to the information and tools they need to make decisions and seek support.
• Citizen and Social Services – Online services improve service reach and quality, save valuable time and public money while improving overall efficiency through services like smart grid technology and platforms to communicate and collaborate.
• Economic and Workforce Development – Improve productivity and competitiveness through broadband new business practices and models which increase revenues, reduce costs and improve customer service. Being online allows businesses to be anywhere and serve customers everywhere.
• Regional Development – Attract, retain and grow innovative businesses, allowing the local economy to become more diverse and resistant to economic shocks, as well as provide well-paying, high-quality jobs.