Did Net neutrality keep broadband out of low-income neighborhoods, as FCC claims?

A big reason current net neutrality rules need to get the boot, says the head of the Federal Communications Commission, is that they’re curbing broadband investment in low-income neighborhoods — cutting off important information and services 21st-century citizens access via high-speed Internet.

But were these 2015 rules, which aimed to prevent companies that bring Internet into homes from favoring their own content over others, really the culprit?

A review of broadband investment over the past two years paints a more complicated picture. One study of the largest carriers, the basis for the FCC’s claim, does show investment fell over the two-year period the rules were in effect.

Mike Snider , USA TODAY

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