This report assesses the current status of broadband availability in North Carolina and offers strategies to achieve universal access. The chief recommendations focus on incentivizing investment in next generation, future-proof infrastructure and reducing barriers to deployment, creating community-based adoption and use programs, closing the "homework gap," facilitating integration of broadband into economic development strategies, and leveraging the influence telehealth technologies have on household broadband adoption and use.
The National Broadband Resource Hub is made possible through the generous support of the Ford Foundation and Schmidt Futures. The site is administered by the Broadband Equity Partnership.