MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A judge is considering whether to save Vermont’s decades-old videoconferencing system.
Vermont Interactive Technologies is expected to be dismantled on Jan. 1.
Vermont Public Radio reports that a preliminary injunction hearing was held Tuesday in Montpelier. Vermont Telecommunications chief Jim Porter told the judge that the equipment is funded until January and that it should be placed in a warehouse until lawmakers can come up with a long-term solution.
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