Broadband Reports, May 7, 2009
By Karl Bode

A bill that would have seriously hampered local community fiber to the home deployments has been sent to a study committee. The bill, which was heavily lobbied for (and likely co-written) by Time Warner Cable lobbyists, took specific aim at municipal broadband deployments in the State that offer symmetrical fiber at speeds up to 100Mbps.

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