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WFCR Local Features
WFCR Local Features
Broadband Network to Blanket Central, Western Mass
(2011-07-29)
(wfcr) - One way to improve the region's economy could be to improve Internet access. Earlier this week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick traveled to the Berkshires to call attention to one of the nation's most aggressive such efforts. In some towns in the Central and Western parts of the state, about half of the residents only have the option of sluggish dial-up Internet service. But as New England Public Radio's Anne Mostue reports, that's changing. © Copyright 2012, wfcr