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Georgia Broadband Legislation
Georgia's state legislature recently became the latest to take up the cause of protecting its constituents from the insidious menace of municipal broadband. Ars Technica reports that "incumbent broadband providers are pushing legislation that would restrict Georgia towns from building municipal broadband networks" by mandating that "if a single home in a census tract has Internet access at speeds of 1.5Mbps or above, the town would be prohibited from offering broadband service to anyone in that tract." The Macon Telegraph reports that legislators from some rural towns in Georgia are "up in arms" over the proposed legislation and claim that they need to build their own broadband networks because "companies simply will not bring the highest-speed Internet to their residents because it doesn’t turn a profit."

 

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