'Last month a bill was introduced in the Kansas legislature, pushed by the Kansas Cable Telecommunications Association and presumably Time Warner Cable, to outlaw cities from selling cable and Internet services or even partnering with private service providers. Meanwhile, AT&T is slowing Google Fiber deployment in Austin by denying access to its utility poles. The incumbents' strategy seems to be kill the demon seed in its crib.'
Is there any particular need for cities to pick which firms can deliver internet services to local residents?
AT&T’s move makes absolute good sense, and no rational person who has payed any attention whatsoever to the moves they have made over the last five years can criticize it at all.
They aren’t really obstructing anything.