Ohio trying to expand high-speed Internet access

Calls to expand broadband service in the U.S. have been going out for years, but few states have succeeded in extending the technology to their remotest regions. About 55 percent of Ohio residents have broadband service in their homes, with coverage higher in urban areas, according to a nonprofit group hired by the state to conduct the first comprehensive study of broadband service in the state. Fewer than 36 percent of residents in Ohio's Appalachian counties, home to 1.5 million people scattered over the southern and eastern parts of the state, have broadband in their homes, the study said.

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