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Richard Blumenthal: “This area has about 22 towns and 200,000 residents, including Meryl Streep and Henry Kissinger and a number of other…”

On the recordOctober 6, 2015
This area has about 22 towns and 200,000 residents, including Meryl Streep and Henry Kissinger and a number of other boldfaced names that would be well known to you, but it is covered in a way that local officials and residents say is extremely limited--in fact, lacking--so that business growth is stalled, schools are undermined, not to mention ordinary households suffering from a lack of coverage.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal describes the severe broadband access issues in northwestern Connecticut.

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