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On the recordFebruary 3, 2016
If we can afford to do a Census every 10 years and base our decisions on what we do economically as a Nation based on the Census, we should be able to do a census of our coverage across this country for mobile broadband.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker emphasizes the need for a mobile broadband coverage census similar to the national Census.

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