{"id":17017,"date":"2017-11-26T01:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T07:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17017"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:41:03","slug":"att-and-comcast-lawsuit-has-nullified-a-citys-broadband-competition-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17017","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T and Comcast lawsuit has nullified a city\u2019s broadband competition law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The court agreed with AT&amp;T and Comcast&#8217;s argument, saying, &#8220;It is clear that the [Metro Nashville] Charter grants NES broad, unencumbered power to manage and control the properties of the Electric Power Board. It expressly denies that power to the Mayor, the Council, and any other agency of the Metro Nashville government.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/11\/att-and-comcast-win-lawsuit-they-filed-to-stall-google-fiber-in-nashville\/\">AT&amp;T and Comcast lawsuit has nullified a city\u2019s broadband competition law | Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court agreed with AT&amp;T and Comcast&#8217;s argument, saying, &#8220;It is clear that the [Metro Nashville] Charter grants NES broad, unencumbered power to manage and control the properties of the Electric Power Board. It expressly denies that power to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[635,47,621,487],"class_list":["post-17017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-comcast","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-net-neutrality","tag-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17018,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions\/17018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}