Telecommunications and rural business

There is a great deal of telecommunications technology use among rural businesses. These businesses are even using highly sophisticated technologies with some frequency. It appears that rural communities are relying on Information Age technologies to achieve economic viability more heavily than many of their urban counterparts. Rural businesses of all types are using new technologies to negate their relative isolation. Rural communities view telecommunications technology's potential for connectivity as critical, so they advocate universal access to and the competitive pricing of this technology. These rural firms believe that telecommunications technology use does not necessarily infer a capital/labor substitution.