Tennessee cable bill dead for the year

TENNESSEE CABLE BILL DEAD FOR THE YEAR
[SOURCE: Memphis Commercial-Appeal, AUTHOR: Richard Locker]
Telecommunications giant AT&T's months-long efforts to win legislative approval of a bill to streamline its entry into Tennessee's cable television market is dead for the year. Legislative sponsors of the bill, Reps. Steve McDaniel and Charles Curtiss, said late Wednesday they will take the bill "off notice" until the 2008 legislative session -- effectively killing it for the year. The move came after continued fighting over the issue and the belief that the bill did not have enough votes to pass. The cable industry -- primarily Comcast, Charter and the Tennessee Cable Telecommunications Association -- plus the Tennessee Municipal League, which represents city governments across the state, vigorously opposed the bill, which has passed in at least a dozen other states served by AT&T.
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