The FCC is reviewing options on how best...
The FCC is reviewing options on how best to move to pre-empt state laws banning municipal broadband, Chairman Tom Wheeler said in response to our question after the agency’s meeting Friday. An agency spokesman had said it planned to move…
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on municipal broadband in May (CD April 29 p3). “Sometimes things don’t move as quickly as otherwise might be determined or hoped,” Wheeler said Friday. “We obviously have multiple pathways to deal with the question of municipal broadband. We can have a notice of inquiry. We can have an NPRM. We can respond to a petition. And right now, we're kind of reviewing what all of the options are.” Any of those options may be possible, he said. “I have made no secret about my feelings about the issue” of municipal broadband, Wheeler said. “Being pro-competition means being pro-competition.”