Report: Municipal broadband environment has gotten ‘significantly worse’

StateScoop: There’s a nationwide increase in the number of regions offering broadband service through locally-owned infrastructure, but some states are making it harder than ever for towns and cities to start their own broadband networks. The roadblocks, typically led by state legislators, have gotten “significantly worse” in 2019, one policy expert told StateScoop.

Research published Wednesday by BroadbandNow.com, a website that ranks internet service providers, details the 26 states that have banned or enacted policy roadblocks inhibiting municipal broadband or internet cooperatives.

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