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MONTPELIER â Vermont's elected leaders and lawmakers are in broad agreement about extending high speed broadband to every home in the state.
But there's a renewed focus on how much that service will cost Vermonters who need broadband access for school, work, remote medical consultation and business opportunities, lawmakers said Wednesday.
The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday took more testimony on a pair of competing legislative proposals envisioning ways the state can use suddenly plentiful federal funding to finally bridge the state's digital gap.
Comments during that hearing, and during a roundtable discussion hosted by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., stressed the importance of making access affordable for households which, to this point, have been unable to afford service, or access it at all.