Roger Timmerman

It is critical that the truth about open-access municipal broadband networks be told: They work; they are successful; they spur competition; they are closing the digital divide. They also are an irritant to big cable and its allies, whose henchmen have been busy at work in a well-financed lobbying campaign. Municipal fiber is hugely successful in Utah, even in his own district. In fact, Utah, one of the most politically conservative states in the nation, has more municipal broadband networks than elsewhere in the US.