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As of 2023, 16 states currently have laws that restrict or frustrate the establishment of municipal broadband networks. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] In May 2023, Colorado passed a bill to lift a law requiring referendums for municipal broadband networks; the bill received bipartisan support.
Acquiring municipal broadband for some communities is problematic because the laws of certain states prohibit local municipalities from installing their own broadband networks and private sector companies are unable to provide the electric services needed for broadband. As a result, many rural and remote communities are left with without ...
Tennessee v. Federal Communications Commission, 832 F.3d 597 (2016), was a ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, [1] holding that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have the authority to preempt states from enforcing "anti-expansion" statutes that prohibit local municipal broadband networks from being expanded into nearby communities.
This funding, administered through the state's Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities 2.0 program, aims to connect over 140,000 locations to high-speed internet and drive ...
Wisconsin gets $221 million in rural broadband grant applications but only $42 million available
Boylston, Gardner, Leominster, Oxford and Winchendon will receive part of a $4 million state grant to help improve or build broadband infrastructure.
If the vote went in the cities' favor, the state laws would no longer be in effect and municipal systems could expand outside the cities. [ 42 ] After Tennessee and North Carolina appealed, on August 10, 2016, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 did not necessarily give the FCC the right to prevent ...
The law would force internet companies to give some low-income New Yorkers broadband service for as low as $15 a month, or face fines from the state. New York to require internet providers to ...