Bill to maintain net neutrality working its way through Colorado Legislature

Telecommunications companies would be barred from receiving state grants if they don't follow network neutrality standards that have been abandoned by the Federal Communications Commission under a bill working its way through the Colorado Legislature. The measure, introduced by CO State Sens Kerry Donovan (D-Vail) and Jeff Bridges (D-Greenwood Village), is in reaction to the FCC's reversal of net neutrality standards set under President Barack Obama. "We felt that the bill could focus on the very clear nexus of saying, if you receive taxpayer dollars to go out into rural Colorado and deploy broadband infrastructure, then the state has the authority and obligation to say that infrastructure is going to be used to treat everyone the same," said State Sen Donovan.