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Peter Welch: “Will rural America be wired just like urban America?”

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

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DC2U interview with Rep. Peter Welch

Published | Video Starts at 09:29

Tell us about your thoughts regarding maybe what you see the committee being able to accomplish and what your specific goals and interests would be in solving rural broadband issues. Well, there's a simple question that this Congress has to answer, and it's this. Will rural America be wired just like urban America? Now, there's no economic case that they should be because the big investors, they get the most money, the most return on their investment in densely populated areas. (09:29–09:35)

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Raises the issue of equitable broadband access between rural and urban areas.

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