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After Supreme Court loss, ISPs ask Trump admin to block state affordability laws | New York mandates $15 low-income plans; other states may impose similar laws.
New York mandates $15 low-income plans; other states may impose similar laws.
Broadband lobby groups asked the Trump administration to block state laws that require Internet service providers to offer cheap plans to people with low incomes. "The Antitrust Division should work with other components of the Department of Justice to consider bringing affirmative preemption litigation against the harmful state laws already on the books or soon enacted—particularly those that directly regulate broadband rates," the lobby groups said. The broadband lobby groups' filing said ISPs are also worried about "unnecessary anticompetitive regulations" proposed in Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia.
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