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In New York, Bringing Broadband to Everyone by 2018

The New York Times: HALCOTT, N.Y. — It’s about 15 miles from here to a dairy testing facility in Roxbury, or about one hour and 20 minutes round trip if you know these dusty mountain back roads like Chris DiBenedetto, a dairy farmer. He has been going back and forth for years, ferrying a sample of fresh milk for a federally-mandated drug test before he can start processing each batch.

But what stressed him the most were the valuable daylight farming hours lost to the journey, while he was stuck in his car or waiting for the results.

Now, Mr. DiBenedetto gives a sample to a driver heading that way to do the drop off, letting the new fiber wiring hanging over his old route do the simple document delivery for him via email.

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