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On the recordJune 20, 2023
If you are in an area where 50 percent have access to broadband and 50 percent don't, you say, well, too bad for that 50 who don't.
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Jim Matheson
Utah

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Highlighting the issue of unequal broadband access in mixed-coverage areas.

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Dec 9, 2014

Seems to me in this hearing we are talking about this consumer right to know. I find it interesting, this is on an issue where everyone has acknowledged there is no health or safety risk here.

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Jun 20, 2023

I also think we have to be very careful about saying we only want to serve unserved, but underserved don't matter anymore.

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Jun 20, 2023

Let's get it in the farm bill. It is subject to the annual appropriations process.

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Oct 29, 2019

I think it is important, first of all, to look at the fact that, as I mentioned in my opening testimony, different communities have different circumstances.

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