Federalism, Preemption and Municipal Broadband

Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies
Thursday, January 22, 2015
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EST)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phoenix-center-teleforum-federalism-preempt...

Last year, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler authored a blog entitled Removing Barriers to Community Broadband. Chairman Wheeler held out the municipal system in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as the “poster child” for why “it is in the best interests of consumers and competition that the FCC exercises its power to preempt state laws that ban or restrict competition from community broadband.” In anticipation of his 2015 State of the Union Address, the Obama Administration jumped on Wheeler’s bandwagon both by issuing a formal report and having the President give a speech about helping municipalities build their own broadband networks to compete with privately-funded broadband providers.

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