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An urban fiber-optic challenge

Verizon to use Dorchester as a test site for bringing high-speed Net into cities

By Keith Reed
Globe Staff / November 2, 2006

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Verizon Communications Inc. is installing fiber-optic Internet service in Dorchester, using Boston's biggest, and one of its most diverse neighborhoods, as a test site for the challenges the company will face in bringing "FiOS" to urban areas nationwide. (Full article: 1048 words)

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