Muni Broadband Laws Needed To Protect Taxpayers, CenturyLink Says
Municipal broadband projects have had a history of “costly business failures that have saddled citizens with substantial financial failures,” CenturyLink's Melissa Newman, senior vice president-federal policy and regulatory affairs, told aides to FCC Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel on…
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Feb. 11, said ex parte filings posted Friday in dockets 14-115 and 14-116. Newman cited Greenlight in Wilson, North Carolina, which had a deficit of $1.2 million in June 2013. The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency “experienced millions of dollars in operating losses every year and has failed to meet projections on customers and revenues, thus requiring it to go back to its member cities for additional financing" (see 1407090034), Newman said. Many state municipal broadband laws were adopted to “protect citizens from projects that could very likely increase their taxes," she said. "Many of the laws adopted were done so to ensure a level playing field for private investment.”