A partisan battle is brewing over publicly-owned broadband networks. Now that a federal court has blocked an effort by the FCC to boost community broadband, Congress should respond by passing a bill making it easier for cities to build affordable, high-speed networks for citizens, according to public interest advocates…
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Wednesday’s Sixth Circuit Court ruling that reversed the FCC’s municipal cable authorizationshas predictably raised new questions about what happens next. Supporters of the rejected FCC policy now expect to accelerate their efforts in state legislatures and not just North Carolina and Tennessee where the contested muni cable projects were scotched…
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Washington, DC (August 10, 2016) – In a move that impacts Next Century Cities members Chattanooga, TN and Wilson, NC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today released a decision overturning the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) ruling allowing these cities the opportunity to make their own local decisions on broadband access. “Today’s
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An Appellate Court overruled the Federal Communication Commission’s ruling that would have allowed Chattanooga to make its own decisions about broadband access in the area. The ruling means that Chattanooga’s EPB and other similar municipal providers in the state can’t expand to areas they aren’t currently authorized to serve, such as rural areas of Hamilton
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In a setback for municipal broadband advocates, a U.S. federal court ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission cannot preempt state law to let cities expand publicly-funded Internet services…
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