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Wireless industry warns H.121 is a price mandate that could reduce affordable fixed‑wireless options and face federal preemption
Summary
CTIA representatives told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee that H.121’s pricing provisions amount to an artificial price mandate, risk legal conflict with the Federal Communications Act and could discourage fixed wireless providers from offering low‑cost services.
Jeremy Crandall (identified in the record also as Jeremy Trandell), assistant vice president for state legislative affairs at CTIA, testified Feb. 14 in opposition to House Bill 121, which aims to create an affordability pathway for broadband service in Vermont. “This is an artificial price mandate on private companies,” he told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee.
Crandall said the bill risks unintended consequences that could harm the affordability the Legislature seeks to promote. He pointed to New York’s recent affordability law as an example, saying one major carrier publicly cited that law when it announced it would cease a fixed‑wireless offering in that state. “I don’t think…
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