FCC releases preemption order

FCC Releases Order to Remove State Law Barriers in North Carolina and Tennessee in Response to Petitions from Wilson, NC and Chattanooga, TN.

As stated on the Baller and Herbst website, “In the attached Order, the Commission concluded that: ‘Tennessee and North Carolina laws are barriers to broadband infrastructure investment and that preemption will promote competition in the telecommunications market by removing statutory barriers to such competition. In other words, we find that removal of such barriers would likely result in more overall broadband investment and competition. … To put it plainly, the Commission has concluded that preemption of these restrictions will expand broadband investment and deployment, increase competition, and serve the public interest, as Section 706 intended.’ “