North Carolina nonprofit and global technology company team up to help close the digital divide in rural areas of the state by working to ensure communities have affordable broadband to successfully learn, work, and live in the 21st century. 
The 9th annual 12 Days of Broadband was successful throughout December. Please take a moment and reflect on all 12 stories we provided this year and let us know what you think. 
Who we are
MCNC is a technology non-profit that builds, owns, and operates a leading-edge broadband infrastructure for North Carolina’s research, education, non-profit healthcare, and other community institutions.
What we do
Leverage MCNC’s vast, open access broadband infrastructure to create unprecedented opportunity for North Carolinians where they live, access education, seek economic gain, participate in their governance and access healthcare.
Why we do it
MCNC works with the existing and future connectors to our North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) to identify and meet broadband, network services and application needs that are not currently being met. MCNC partners with best of breed service and application providers to develop, deploy and sustain solutions for NCREN connectors.