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How Verizon and Comcast are working to ensure states don’t pass their own net neutrality bills

Some of the nation’s biggest Internet providers want to make sure that, once the Federal Communications Commission votes to deregulate the broadband industry, states won’t be able to set up their own, new regulations to replace them.

Comcast and Verizon have both asked telecom regulators to make clear that the FCC’s new policy on net neutrality — which could be put to a vote as early as next month — will preempt state and local regulations that might read differently. The request marks the industry’s latest step to weaken federal rules that regulate broadband companies like legacy telephone companies.

By Brian Fung

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/06/how-verizon-and-comcast-are-working-to-ensure-states-dont-pass-their-own-net-neutrality-bills/?utm_term=.11c53881c241

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