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16 U.S. States Still Ban Community-Owned Broadband Networks Because AT&T and Comcast Told Them To (www.techdirt.com)

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For years we’ve noted how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s resulted in a growing number of pissed off towns, cities, cooperatives, and city-owned utilities building their own, locally-owned broadband networks in a bid for better, cheaper, faster broadband.

States in question:

Alabama
Florida
Louisiana
Montana
Michigan
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin

Credit to @[email protected] for finding them.

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[–] Vertelleus 4 points 2 weeks ago

I had to dig for the 16 states:
https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks

Alabama
Florida
Louisiana
Montana
Michigan
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin