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Brian Schatz: “My concern is no objection to moving forward on broadband, but that at a minimum we take the lessons we have learned…”

On the recordJune 1, 2015
My concern is no objection to moving forward on broadband, but that at a minimum we take the lessons we have learned from Lifeline for voice and we encourage the FCC to use those lessons and not repeat those mistakes.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

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Schatz urges the FCC to learn from past mistakes with the Lifeline program.

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