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Need To Know | High Fiber | PBS

Duration: 13:06
Program: Need to Know #153
Broadcast Date: May. 13, 2011

Broadband service in the U.S. lags behind a dozen or more industrialized countries - and we're doing worse every year. Rick Karr went to Europe - in collaboration with Engadget - to find out how two countries there have jumped ahead of us.

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