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Broadband quality dispute surfaces as Renner urges tougher oversight
Summary
Senator Renner accused some grant-funded broadband builds of substandard construction and urged the committee to use audits and independent reviews; a broadband oversight member disputed that characterization and cited prior testimony.
A heated exchange over broadband project quality punctuated the Joint Information Technology Oversight Committee’s Dec. 13 meeting, as one member described widespread construction problems and others pushed back.
Senator Renner said she had heard from constituents and former government IT workers who reported ‘‘substandard build’’ practices on some grant-funded broadband projects — including undersized fiber installations and overhead versus pole deployment — and said she had…
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