Given the “gravity and complexity” of the municipal...
Given the “gravity and complexity” of the municipal broadband issue, as well as the large number of major issues being considered by the FCC, the agency should extend the comment period for petitions filed by Wilson, North Carolina, and the…
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Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, Tennessee, by a month to around Sept. 26, said TechFreedom and several groups in a petition (http://bit.ly/1tuP3Ub) posted in dockets 14-115 and 14-116 on Wednesday. Wilson and EPB are seeking preemption of state laws restricting municipal broadband (CD July 25 p16). The groups said comment periods on several major issues are ending soon, including Comcast’s plan to buy Time Warner Cable on Aug. 25, AT&T/DirecTV on Sept. 16, the net neutrality NPRM on Sept. 10, and the broadband progress notice of inquiry on Sept. 4. TechFreedom President Berin Szoka told us he thought the FCC stacking the comment deadline for the municipal broadband petitions so close to deadlines for the net neutrality NPRM and transaction proceedings was “astonishing.” He wasn’t optimistic the commission will grant his extension request.