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Cell Phone Broadband Could Come Just as Fairpoint or Verizon Expand the Reach of DSL

By David Darman on Wednesday, January 16, 2008.

Next Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission in Washington will start taking bids to auction off television spectrum to wireless phone companies.

That spectrum could allow wireless providers to offer cell phones that do much of what hardwired broadband connections do now.

In the meantime, Fairpoint Communications officials have promised New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont regulators that if they take over Verizon’s traditional phone service, they’ll extend the reach of its broadband coverage.

But it’s an open question whether this strategy will succeed given the future direction of wireless phone service.

New Hampshire Public Radio’ David Darman has more.

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House Sends Payday Away

By Dan Gorenstein on Wednesday, January 16, 2008.

As expected, the New Hampshire House has voted to dramatically reduce the fee payday lenders can charge to borrow money.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein reports.

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