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Utah House approves municipal cable framework with protections on retail competition
Summary
House passage of HB149 establishes a framework allowing municipalities to build wholesale fiber networks while imposing operational rules if a city offers retail cable or telecommunications services; an amendment to protect certain rural providers and a study intent on universal service funding were included.
Representative Greg Curtis introduced House Bill 149, the Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunication Services Act, saying the bill draws a distinction between municipal wholesale infrastructure and private retail service. "If the municipality decides that they want to be in the retail business and compete with the private providers," he said, "a new chapter . . . would then come into place."
Curtis told colleagues the measure would permit municipalities to place fiber in the ground and lease the capacity to retail providers through competitive processes, while operational provisions would apply when…
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