16 U.S. States Still Ban Community-Owned Broadband Networks Because AT&T and Comcast Told Them To

For years we’ve noted how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s resulted in a growing number of pissed off towns, cities, cooperatives, and city-owned utilities building their own, locally-owned broadband networks in a bid for better, cheaper, faster broadband.

States in question:

• Alabama
• Florida
• Louisiana
• Montana
• Michigan
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• North Carolina
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Virginia
• Wisconsin

Credit to @Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works for finding them.