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ISPs fear wave of state laws after New York’s $15 broadband mandate | When the FCC isn't regulating, states have more power to impose broadband laws.


When the FCC isn’t regulating, states have more power to impose broadband laws.

AT&T would have a particularly tough time pulling wireline service out of California, which is the only state that hasn't granted AT&T's request for deregulation of old copper telephone networks. AT&T is trying to exit the copper business, even though it won't build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint. AT&T's fiber and copper-based Internet services could fall under a proposed California law to require low-cost plans.

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