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Do We Need More Satellites and Fix Wireless to Wire Up America?

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The biggest holdback is actually that the s c cs data, it's historically been incredibly inaccurate because it's based on census blocks. The senate bill right now includes about forty two billion dollars for broadbed demployments a whereas some estimates say it would cost as much as 200 and forty billion at least just to a do a fibre only network america. If we're trying to wire up everyone, we're not going to be able to afford it. So the question is, what of these other technologies? Do we use more satellites and fix wireless to wire up the country? Or do we just try to build as much fibre as possible with that spending in?"

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