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Big Telecom Is Terrified Of New State Laws Demanding They Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People
During peak COVID lockdowns, New York State passed a law requiring that ISPs (with more than 20,000 subscribers) offer low-income state residents (and low income residents only) a 25 Mbps broadband…
Big Telecom didn’t much like that, but their multi-year effort to kill the law, first passed in 2021, recently fell apart when the Trump Supreme Court refused to hear their challenge. Vermont, California and Massachusetts recently proposed their own versions of New York’s law requiring ISPs make broadband affordable for poor people. “Any attempt by individual states to regulate prices or other parts of the broadband market will undermine all of the connectivity progress we have made, discourage investment, and end up hurting consumers.”
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