It will cost at least $40 billion to reach 98 percent of the population.
Frank Pallone: “It will cost at least $40 billion to reach 98 percent of the population.”
On the recordMarch 20, 2017
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Pallone discusses the financial requirements for expanding broadband access to remote areas.
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