Appalling: Why Is Wyoming Trying To Put My Family’s Small Broadband Company Out Of Business?

In Wyoming, the state government – through the Wyoming Business Council — has been wasting millions of dollars by failing to earmark broadband Internet access funds supplied by the taxpayers to their proper destination: Unserved households.

Rather than focus on those without broadband, Wyoming is in the process of awarding millions in CARES Act money to broadband companies that intend to compete with other broadband providers that already achieve data transmission speeds far in excess of the Federal Communications Commission’s minimum definition of broadband: 25 megabits per second (mbps) downstream and 3 mbps upstream.

Small broadband Internet providers are being victimized by Wyoming’s fiscally wanton practices, which are unfair and need to stop to prevent irreparable harm.

By Robert Jacobson