Business Next: When it comes to broadband access, not all communities are created equal

Work at home, school at home: Those six words explain why it has never been more important for Western New Yorkers to have rapid, reliable internet service. But more than a fifth of all households in Erie and Niagara counties lack broadband internet subscriptions, and one of every seven homes doesn’t even have a computer, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Roughly 103,700 households are without broadband access, accounting for 21.8% of the 474,900 households in the two counties. And 14.1% —…