Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam stated yesterday he has legislation to remove restrictions that prevent co-ops and municipalities from owning broadband networks. The governor will formally present this legislation to state legislators who will meet, discuss, probably edit, and hopefully pass it into law.
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Co-ops would be permitted to build networks, and municipalities could partner with co-ops in moving these projects forward. Municipalities could offer broadband at a wholesale level to cooperatives. “At that point, the cooperative could provide retail broadband service to individual customers who may be outside a municipality.” In addition to allowing electric co-ops to provide telecom services, State Sen. Janice Bowling has introduced legislation to allow municipal power utilities to expand services across Tennessee.
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Combivir generic costGovernor Haslam joins a growing number of governors, legislators, and community leaders working to reduce or eliminate legislative restrictions on community- and public private partnership-owned networks. It has been a long righteous battle and often 21 states had to find work-around for restrictions that legislators imposed.
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The various governors and legislators committing publicly to building more broadband infrastructure are turning the tide on efforts to repeal or negate the effects of anti-muni network laws. It is difficult to lead the charge for increasing deployments when you have laws crippling community broadband.
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State Senator Lucia Guzman drove a repeal effort in Colorado last year and is doing it again this session. Here’s the formal paperwork. The hearing for the bill is February 13 in the Business, Labor, & Technology Committee. I’m not sure if or when a hearing will be held in the State Assembly. Read More