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Ed Markey: We took it, and it created the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cell phone companies in America.

On the recordOctober 6, 2015
We took it, and it created the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cell phone companies in America.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the historical impact of spectrum allocation on the telecommunications industry.

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