Testimony: Rejecting Handouts to Government-Owned Broadband
Testimony in Opposition to LD 1456: “An Act to Facilitate the Expansion of Broadband” Senator Lawrence, Representative Zeigler, and the distinguished members of the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology, […]
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Maine set to waste buckets of federal cash on broadband infrastructure
Mills’ Broadband Bureaucracy Grows With More Biden Bucks Earlier this month, the Treasury Department approved a plan to invest $110 million “to strengthen or expand broadband infrastructure across the state.” […]
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Southport residents experiencing buyer’s remorse over bond for new government-owned network
In May 2021, residents of Southport, Maine voted 95-86 at a special town meeting to seek bonding not to exceed $2.48 million to build a municipal-owned fiber optic network. The […]
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Testimony to Oppose LD 1894
Testimony in Opposition to LD 1894, “An Act To Support Municipal Broadband Infrastructure through Incentives and Competition.” Senator Lawrence, Representative Berry, and the distinguished members of the Committee on Energy, […]
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There’s no need for a government-owned network in Knox County
Many advocates in Maine and around the nation have highlighted the need for more stable and faster internet speeds, especially in the shadow of the remote-learning, work-from-home, socially-distant economy that […]
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Open markets for internet providers can bridge the digital divide
The best safeguard against corporatism and corruption is diffused, lighter, and less-centralized government power. Restoring “net neutrality” would concentrate that power in government, and the only beneficiaries will be the companies who can afford to go to the dance.
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Microsoft’s ‘Airband Initiative’ serves rural Maine without government’s clumsy hand
Internet access is the great equalizer that Net Neutrality and GON proponents claim. The problem with their argument is that they assume that government won’t screw it up.
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