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Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York
Advocates for better Internet access are breathing a sigh of relief in New York as the State Assembly nixed a budget bill amendment that would have undermined the state’s municipal broadband grant program.
Working with New York State Sen. Rachel May, Kelles said the intent of the MIP grant program was to “guarantee that local governments have the option to offer high-speed Internet to their constituencies” because “in places that have deployed a municipal broadband model, prices across the board decrease while service levels increase.” With the proposed amendment not making the cut, Gigi Sohn, Executive Director of the American Association for Public Broadband (AAPB), hailed it as “a victory for every community and every resident of New York State.” “We congratulate Senator Rachel May, Assemblymember Dr. Anna R. Kelles, Governor Hochul and other allies of public broadband in the state legislature and the Administration for working to defeat this language.
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