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Re:The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers by tracker1 on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:11PM (#23657083)
The problem lies in states where they've been successfully lobbied at the state level to block municipal telecom.
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Re:The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers by onionjake on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:34AM (#23659542)
Utah is one of those states that has laws that were originally crafted to prevent municipalities from providing the service by big ISP lobbyists. The law prevents municipalities from offering the service directly to consumers (still does), so UTOPIA was born with an open access network via a 'loophole' if you will in the laws.
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