Time Warner Cable fights against municipal broadband by giving lawmakers a vacation — androidauthority.com

As I have written about in the past, cities around the country are so fed up with their current broadband situation that they are left to聽either begging Google Fiber to come to their city or starting聽the process of building聽their own municipal broadband network. Rather than increasing speeds or lowering prices, incumbent broadband providers have instead turned towards trying to outlaw municipal broadband networks through increased political contributions. In some cases, lobbyists for the broadband providers actually have written聽the language found in proposed聽anti-municipal broadband laws. No, really.

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