Broadband: Stimulus needed in Mississippi

Mississippi has chosen One Economy/BroadMap as its partner in the effort to map broadband availability in the state. Additionally, the state has received 58 proposals for broadband stimulus funds to review. Mississippi lags behind much of the rest of the nation in terms of access to high-speed Internet technologies. A 2007 Census report indicated that Mississippi was at that time worst in the nation with only 46 percent of its citizens able to access broadband.