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It seems to me that the right level for government to be involved in these sorts of questions is the municipality itself, rather than running back to Federal statute. Which is, again, orthogonal to preventing Verizon-owned statehouses from passing laws preventing municipal broadband networks.

This is a very light touch intervention to increase market-based competition. How much more quickly would there be privately owned fiber networks if consumers had the option of going to City Internet for $150/GB/s?




The Internet generally has fallen under inter-state regulations, which is governed by the federal government.




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