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Georgia legislature kills bill that would have clamped down on municipal broadband


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Georgia Municipal Broadband
The dire threat of public broadband lives on in Georgia. Consumerist reports that Georgia's state legislature has shot down a bill that would have barred rural municipalities from building their own public broadband networks in areas where at least one residential building had an Internet connection speed of 1.5Mbps or higher. The Macon Telegraph reported last month that legislators from some rural towns in Georgia were “up in arms” over the proposed legislation and claimed that they needed 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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