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Win for Telecom Giants as Court Puts Dagger in Municipal Broadband

August 11, 2016/

‘Industry-backed state laws to block municipal broadband only exist because pliant legislators are listening to their Big Cable and Big Telecom paymasters’

A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) effort to expand municipal broadband.

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Andrea Germanos

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