[News] TR Daily: AAPB Laments New York Budget Bill Broadband Grant Language Change

The following article was published by TR Daily:

Saying the move would “undermine” efforts to fund community-owned broadband projects, the American Association of Public Broadband (AAPB) has urged New York lawmakers to reject reported changed language in a state budget bill that would limit grants from the Municipal Infrastructure Program only to projects that would serve underserved or unserved locations.

“This anticompetitive and anti-consumer language should not be part of any budget that passes the state legislature," AAPB Executive Director Gigi Sohn said in a press release.

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