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Ed Markey: So back when we passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, for example, we had to put together a whole system of towers…

On the recordJanuary 28, 2015
So back when we passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, for example, we had to put together a whole system of towers across the country so that people could talk to each other.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the need for infrastructure to support communication technologies.

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