Internet service in rural areas

What does it take to get ATT wired internet service where only phone service exists now? My zip code (29702) has several roads, hundreds of homes and businesses, that do not have access to high-speed internet (cell phone only, and sometimes not even that). Schools now require home internet use. Teachers and other professional working from home require high speed internet. I want to purchase property to build a new home, but I am SEVERELY limited by where I can look because there is NO INTERNET service!

HOW can this be FIXED??? Who do I call?