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16 SJ towns to Verizon: Fix our copper lines
2016-01-07 03:08:03| IT Services - Topix.net
With most of the northeastern United States hurtling toward super-fast communications, towns in a swath of rural South Jersey fear being left far behind - even off the grid at times. Wireless reception can be weak there, officials say, because of a dearth of cell towers and because Verizon Communications Inc.'s decades-old copper lines, hanging from telephone poles or snaking through underground conduit, hum, crackle or go dead during rainstorms or fog.
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