Legislation Limits Public BroadBand Operators

What’s happening? An amendment in Ohio would prohibit public broadband operators from providing service as long as there was a private-sector company operating in the area.

Why is this important? The limited exception for public or municipal broadband would be to only unserved area & those without access to download speeds of at least 10 mbps

How will this be important? COVID highlighting the need to improve access to broadband. There’s funding flowing to these projects and that funding has not been distributed.

Ars Technika | Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband