West Virginia Broadband Data

1) West Virginia Advanced Services Report - 2007
Consumer Advocate Division of the W.Va. PSC - (click to read)
Updated annually, the report provides data solicited from broadband providers in West Virginia concerning the status of broadband deployment. The date received from carriers, along with data from national reports, forms the basis for this update.

2) Federal Communications Commission - 2006 Data on High-Speed Services for Internet Access
Click to read press release
Click to read report

3) U.S. GAO Report - May 2006
Telecommunications - Broadband Deployment is Extensive throughout the United States, but It Is Difficult to Assess the Extent of Deployment Gaps in Rural Areas
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06426.pdf

4) Marshall University Center for Business & Economic Research - 2005
The Residential and Commercial Benefits of Rural Broadband: Evidence from Central Appalachia
http://www.marshall.edu/cber (Look under "Recent Publications")

5) Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
An Update on Rural Broadband - October 2003
(click to read)

Other Broadband Data

Appalachian Regional Commission
Research and Data In Telecommunications Research - (click to read)

Pew Internet & American Life Project
Internet Evolution
http://www.pewinternet.org/topics.asp?c=3

USDA - National Agricultural Statistics Service
Farm Computer Usage and Ownership
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/other/computer/