“For broadband-ASPs and their friends complain about New York law and proposed the Massachusetts laws that require a broadband offer with low incomes: you asked for full deregulation at a federal level and you have it. This is the result,” Gigi Sohn , Executive director of the American Association for Public Broadband, wrote today.
Sohn has called on ISPs to join the proponents of the consumer to support a federal law that is' limited but meaningful supervision of broadband … Until then my colleagues and I listen to every state who listen to it To ensure that internet users are protected against competitors and anticonsumer practices. “
AT&T Exit has a limited meaning
The partial exit from AT&T from New York probably does not indicate that a stream of ISPs will flee that flee the state. AT&T still offers mobile service in New York and it only offered the 5G internet plan for at home in 10 cities and villages. AT&T would have much more difficult to get internet service from the 21 states where it offers a wired internet service.
The lobby groups that tried to destroy the Staatswet, are the New York State Telecommunications Association, CTIA-The Wireless Association, NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association, Ustelecom, ACA Connects-America's Communications Association.
The groups convinced a federal court to block New York's law in 2021, but the decision of that court was reversed by the American Court of Appeal for the 2nd circuit in April 2024. Appeals judges rejected arguments that New York's law was preceded By the federal rules, saying that “a federal agency cannot exclude from regulating an area where the agency itself has no regulatory authority.”
The FCC was missing authority about broadband after the withdrawal of net neutrality rules of 2017 and related common-career regulations. The FCC from the Biden era voted to restore that authority, but lost a lawsuit that was submitted by Ustelecom and the Ohio Telecom Association.
