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Is there room for broadband in the Trump infrastructure agenda?

  • Written by Krishna Jayakar, Co-Director, Institute for Information Policy and Associate Professor of Telecommunications, Pennsylvania State University
imageThere's still a lot of the U.S. waiting to be wired up.asharkyu/Shutterstock.com

A promise to restore America’s crumbling infrastructure was a key part of President Donald Trump’s campaign speeches. He pledged to rebuild America’s roads and bridges, ports and highways, which are undoubtedly in need of repair. Less clear in his...

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