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Peter Welch: “There's been significant funding across the country to help…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Senator Peter Welch with WAMC’s Ian Pickus Interview on Internet Acess

Published | Video Starts at 00:55

People pushed back on us, but now they know we're right because you couldn't have your kids do homework, you couldn't go to work, you couldn't have a telehealth medical appointment unless you had high speed Internet. So There's been significant funding across the country to help deploy urban broadband, but it's spotty. and it's really tough on the implementation because how you do it in say, rural flat Kansas is a good deal different than how you might do it in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont with all our hills. (00:55–01:04)

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