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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.
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.
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 ...
The total cost for municipal broadband in Edison has not been disclosed by township officials. Edison gets $2M grant to kick-start municipal broadband but feasibility questions remain Skip to main ...
Wisconsin gets $221 million in rural broadband grant applications but only $42 million available
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 ...
Boylston, Gardner, Leominster, Oxford and Winchendon will receive part of a $4 million state grant to help improve or build broadband infrastructure.
A 2020 article reported that 22 states had substantive legal roadblocks to establishing municipal or government-owned broadband networks. [80] This can be connected to the national dispute over net neutrality , the principle that ISPs should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking ...