Rural Digital Divide

ARSTechnica reports on a recent USDA study:
"Both urban and rural Internet use have soared in the US over the last few years, but some new number-crunching from the US Department of Agriculture puts a number on the urban/rural gap: 9.3 percent. 72.6 percent of urban Americans use the Internet somewhere (though not necessarily at home), but among rural residents that number falls to 63.3 percent."

The USDA has $2.5 billion from the recent stimulus bill to deal with this issue. It'll be interesting to see how the agency plans to address these issues.