The Press Gives AT&T a Lap Dance
A bit caustic, but unfortunately pretty accurate….
Yet another AP piece on franchise reform that fails to note the laws AT&T and Verizon are lobbying for strip away eminent domain rights, eliminate consumer protections, legalize cherry picking, and will kill off public access television. And that’s one of the good ones.
No questions asked about whether local municipalities REALLY delay phone companies deploying TV and prevent them from competing with cable companies. No questions asked about whether letting a company cherry pick next-gen broadband deployment results in broad competition or lower prices in a duopoly market. No mention of the fact that Texas has had one of these laws in place for two years, and cableTV prices continue to rise, and broadband competitive utopia has not sprouted from between sidewalk cracks like f***ing angelic weeds.
