In a rare
senatorial act, full-time Republican presidential candidate Marco
Rubio joined with a handful of fellow legislators on Friday in an
attempt to block local municipalities from undercutting big telecom
companies by providing cheap, fast internet service.
Rubio, who
is raising campaign cash from the telecom industry for his
presidential campaign, fired off a letter to the Federal
Communications Commission asking the agency to allow states to block
municipal broadband services.
The letter
was the latest salvo in a long-running effort by the major telecom
companies to outlaw municipal broadband programs that have taken off
in cities such as Lafayette, Louisiana, and Chattanooga, Tennessee,
because they pose a threat to a business model that calls for slow,
expensive internet access without competition.
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