Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 31, 2014 @01:04AM from the not-in-my-state dept.

symbolset writes: "Consumerist, among others, is reporting on a Kansas bill to restrict municipal support of broadband expansion. Purportedly to ensure a 'level playing field' to encourage commercial expansion in this area, these bills are usually referred to as oligopoly protection acts. Everywhere they have been implemented expansion of new broadband technology stops. In this specific case no municipal entity in Kansas will be able to enter the same sort of agreements that enabled Google Fiber. From the bill:
Except with regard to unserved areas, a municipality may not, directly or indirectly:
(1) Offer to provide to one or more subscribers, video, telecommunications or broadband service; or
(2) purchase, lease, construct, maintain or operate any facility for the purpose of enabling a private business or entity to offer, provide, carry, or deliver video, telecommunications or broadband service to one or more subscribers."

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But Kansas! by N3tRunner · 2014-01-31 01:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Darn, I'm sure Google was excited by the prospect of providing broadband access to the tens of people who live in municipalities in Kansas.
1. Re:But Kansas! by ryanmetcalf · 2014-01-31 01:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Hey, Kansas is more populus than 16 other states in the US. There's at least hundreds of us!
Re:They don't deserve it anyway. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-31 01:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Kansans mustn't have broadband, they might gain forbidden knowledge.
Alternative article title by korbulon · 2014-01-31 01:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Hix Nix Quix Netflix.
Re:Wacky thinking by TheGratefulNet · 2014-01-31 03:56 · Score: 4, Funny

presto piety.
why did you have to go and say that? now I'm really hungry for pizza, and I have no idea why!

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