9. Utah ranks #1 in the nation for home broadband adoption -“Exploring the Digital Nation: Home Broadband Internet Adoption in the United States” U.S. Department of Commerce, November 2010.
10. Contact: Tara Thue Governor’s Office of Economic Development [email_address] 801-538-8742 Website: http://broadband.utah.gov Twitter: @UtahBroadband
Editor's Notes
Increasingly, broadband Internet service is viewed as a critical component of a nation or state’s physical infrastructure and a key driver of economic growth in the world’s most economically developed counties. Ensuring that the infrastructure necessary to provide broadband service is universally available and that all citizens who wish to subscribe are able to do so are policy goals of many governments. Universal availability is, for example, a policy goal set forth in the National Broadband Plan, issued in March 2010 in response to a congressional mandate.