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Broadband as an Innovation Driver
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2012 - 2015 Job Creation Focus — Forward Together 18,000+ new jobs More than $2.7 billion in private sector investment announced since 2012.
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Many reasons businesses Choose Mississippi Access to quality infrastructure always a critical consideration Increasingly includes technology infrastructure
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Broadband as an Economic Driver $250 billion in private investment into broadband networks in the past 5 years Internet access reported to have contributed $34 billion per year on average to US GDP since 2002
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Broadband as an Economic Driver 940 million broadband subscribers forecast by 2018 Access to broadband is correlated to increased education achievement, which drives personal economic growth
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Broadband as an Education Driver All MS Community Colleges, research universities have access to fiber broadband 97% of all MS K-12 schools have fiber-based broadband. Federal E-rate program aids in buildout
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Broadband as a Healthcare Driver One of seven states to receive “A” rating from American Telemedicine Association 200 diabetes patients in rural Mississippi Delta UMMC, North Sunflower Medical Center, GE Healthcare and C Spire
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Broadband as a Healthcare Driver Recently broke ground on new facility for UMMC Center for Telehealth E-Corporate Telehealth as a delivery model for businesses 9 companies including PACCAR
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Broadband as an Innovation Driver Stennis Space Center is a center of innovation One of the world’s largest supercomputers Yesterday, CenturyLink and LGS Innovations announced a major fiber- optic network upgrade at Stennis
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Growing Mississippi’s Broadband Infrastructure Lead the effort in 2013 to renew broadband tax credits (Senate Bill 2829) 5%-15% tax credit for deployment of broadband technologies
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Growing Broadband: Gulf Coast Focus
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Proposing $15 million from RESTORE Bucket 1 Recommended in GoCoast 2020 report Will lay the foundation for private broadband investment on Gulf Coast
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Broadband as an Innovation Driver
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