In places like rural Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Arizona, where there are no high speed Internet lines, schools might be willing to settle for POT (plain old telephone) connections to the Internet at 56 kps.
Schools in rural Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana need high speed internet lines. 
mnli hypothesis: Schools in rural Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana need high speed internet lines.  premise: In places like rural Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Arizona, where there are no high speed Internet lines, schools might be willing to settle for POT (plain old telephone) connections to the Internet at 56 kps.