One option for promoting faster public Internet still on the table

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One option for promoting faster public Internet still on the table

by Jake Kara, CT Mirror
April 3, 2017

<h1>One option for promoting faster public Internet still on the table</h1>
<p class="byline">by Jake Kara, CT Mirror <br />April 3, 2017</p>

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