Millions Said to Be Wasted on U.S. Broadband Expansion
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The U.S. wasted millions of dollars on a program to spread high-speed Internet service, a Republican lawmaker overseeing the spending said. A Democrat defended the initiative as helping localities.
“The government has spent millions on equipment it did not need and on stringing fiber to areas that already had fiber,” Representative Greg Walden of Oregon said in an e-mail yesterday.