Any direct infrastructure spending Congress approves should be targeted exclusively to the few remaining census tracts, mostly rural and tribal, where there is currently no competitive broadband service.
Roger Wicker: “Any direct infrastructure spending Congress approves should be targeted exclusively to the few remaining census tracts…”
On the recordJune 19, 2017
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Wicker emphasizes targeting infrastructure spending to underserved areas for broadband service.
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