How will high-speed Internet access benefit area chambers of commerce and Tri-county economic development councils?
Businesses are increasingly reliant on digital communications with suppliers, vendors, employees and customers. The major industrial businesses of the region have all adopted Internet based technologies as their standard for method of basic communications, such as transferring CAD/CAM drawings, accepting orders, and conducting electronic commerce. From an economic development perspective, broadband availability is essential to ensure the region, as a whole, can maintain and continue to increase competitiveness. Broadband Internet will increasingly be perceived as a utility, just like water and sewer. Service must be generally available in the region, or businesses will locate outside the region. The perspective of Chambers, existing businesses and their related associations is similar, only more imminent. If your members are not educated in the benefits or understand how to use Broadband Internet, they will begin to lose their competitive position in the market. It is reality, customer
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