”I don’t know” if AT&T has given money...
"I don’t know” if AT&T has given money to lobby against municipal broadband networks, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said at a Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee hearing Tuesday. He “personally” is against making a private company compete against networks funded by…
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taxpayer dollars, unless the area is unserved, Stephenson told Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., who pressed the executive on his company’s stance. Franken said many mayors and other municipal officials favor creating such networks. Stephenson repeatedly indicated he wasn’t sure where his company’s lobbying expenses went, declining to answer Franken’s questions about AT&T lobbying on that issue. AT&T is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has model state legislation restricting municipal networks and that has helped pass state laws of that kind.