2. For years, Misti worked for an IT company in White River, South Dakota. It’s a small town surrounded by miles of farms and ranches. Back then, growing her high-tech business meant hitting the road. Every week, Misti put another thousand miles on her car.
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3. Misti says she spent so many hours behind the wheel that she taught herself Spanish while on the road.
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4. After she married her husband, Brian, they moved back to his family’s 7,000-acre farm. Misti wanted to stay home & raise their young kids. She also wanted to maintain her high-tech career, which helped support the family.
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5. Working from home with a high-speed connection would let her do all of that. And that was the problem. They only had dial-up. Misti gave it a shot. It didn’t work. She would try to connect remotely to a client’s site only to lose the connection and the customer.
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6. That all changed in 2017. That’s when an Internet provider built fiber down that dirt road and to their farm. They did so with support from the FCC’s Universal Service Fund. Misti says the change “was night and day” letting her maintain her high-tech business.
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7. The high-speed connection also provides a big boost to their farming operation. Brian & Misti now use a range of Smart Ag technologies on their combines and sprayers—Internet-powered tools that are increasing their yields and saving money.”
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8. Driving through one of his fields, Brian pointed out that his tractor now connects to a tablet & cloud-based software that lets him make precise, inch-by-inch adjustments. Misti says the new Internet connection “on our farmland is as critical to his business as it is to mine.”
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9. Misti and Brian show what hard work and an Internet connection can mean for rural communities. They provide a reminder of why we at the FCC are so focused on closing the digital divide. We want every family to have the opportunity that fast Internet connections enable.
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@FCC we vote on our most significant step yet towards connecting the hardest-to-serve parts of the country. It will allow providers to bring millions of Americans just like Misti and her family across the digital divide. It has my support.Prikaži ovu nit
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