Utah Bill Would Prevent Regional Fiber Networks From Growing

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 5, 2014 @11:28AM from the stop-obstructing-my-internet dept.

symbolset writes "On the heels of the smackdown received by cable lobbyists in Kansas, Ars reports out of Utah that the cable companies aren't giving up hopes of preventing competition through legislation. The bill, called Interlocal Entity Service Prohibition, would prevent a regional fiber consortium from building infrastructure outside the boundaries of its member cities and towns — a direct attack on Google's work in Provo and the UTOPIA network. Utah is the third state to be involved in the Google Fiber rollout of gigabit fiber to the home."

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Slashdot Beta Kills Slashdot by buswolley · 2014-02-05 11:40 · Score: 4, Informative

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HB60 Pulled by Nethemas+the+Great · 2014-02-05 11:56 · Score: 4, Informative

HB60 was pulled from the scheduled Feb 4 committee meeting. I wonder if someone got cold feet?

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