[영어뉴스 공부] Access To High-Speed Internet In America Is Leading To A Digital Divide

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There are many ways to measure the distance between the haves and the have-nots in America. 

income education and justice are the most glaring. 

One place you may not have considered though is the speed of an internet connection. 

As the wireless world moves faster by the minute many Americans are being left behind.

Dasha burns from nbc's streaming network signal explains in our sunday spotlight [Music]

Pete kramer is a crop consultant in rural minnesota. His job is to collect data from his farm and deliver it to clients.

"just about every piece of equipment has a computer hooked in"

The problem is the internet is kind of new around here. Just two years ago Pete could barely send an email.

"it meant to me running the USB sticks. Sometimes I Drive up to 60 miles to drop off some information or some data"

"so that's like the horse and buggy day is like Paul Revere who the flash drive." 

His story may sound extreme but a third of US homes don't have high-speed Internet. 

America's digital divide is real and it could get worse because of this 

5g is the future. ultra high speeds ultra reliability that we're not only but almost everything 

5g is the wireless network that will take over 4G 

it's so fast it could replace your home internet 

even power smart cities and driverless cars 

it promises to connect our world faster than ever before but it could also divide us further 

have you thought about what might happen as 5g gets deployed 

I'm skeptical how long it would take there's areas that are gonna be left behind for a while ago 

4G relies on cell towers that service many miles 

5g uses devices called small cells 

their range is only several hundred feet 

so for 5g to work in a rural area you're looking at a lot of small cells that cost a lot of money 

plus the digital divide isn't just a rural problem 

over the course of you know your four years in high school I'm sure you've been assigned a lot of homework 

a lot of that homework relies on an internet connection 

it's frustrating because you want to do the whole what you can't do it that you don't have no internet 

Erik Bellamy is a high school senior in Newark New Jersey 

it's across the river from Manhattan yet over 40 percent of homes here don't have high-speed Internet 

are you worrying about missing out on opportunities because of that 

yes because financially 

in rural areas the digital divide is about access 

in urban areas it's about cost 

that's because the big telecom companies tend to go first where the big profit is and that's usually not in low population or low-income areas 

they're left scrambling for alternatives 

to get online Eric takes the bus after school to a Learning Center at Rutgers University 

the city is full of young people who have big dreams like Eric 

we don't want the lack of Internet access to get in the way of his success 

back in rural Minnesota locals have band together to create their own network 

an internet co-op called RS fiber 

what are we looking at here 

every single blinky light is a customer 

currently we have over two thousand subscribers 

it's not a company coming in and doing it it's all the towns working together 

but these creative solutions underscore the greater problem 

in the rural areas up till a couple years ago they didn't have four teams 

metro areas had 14 

so if five DS available tomorrow in Minneapolis how long before it's available everywhere 

5g could take us into the future 

but if the pattern continues a big leap forward for some could leave others even farther behind 

for Sunday today Dasha burns Gibbon Minnesota.

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