From: monty@roscom.com   
      
   CEO thinks US will keep giving billions to private ISPs instead of   
   public networks.   
      
   By Jon Brodkin   
      
   AT&T CEO John Stankey yesterday called President Biden's plan to fund   
   municipal broadband networks "misguided" and said the US shouldn't pay   
   for any broadband deployment in areas that already have networks. But   
   as AT&T and other ISPs lobby against public networks and government-   
   funded competition, Stankey said he is confident that Congress will   
   steer legislation in the more "pragmatic" direction that AT&T favors.   
      
   In an interview with The Economic Club of Washington, DC, Stankey was   
   asked, "Do you support the president's proposal to have municipalities   
   own broadband facilities?" Stankey responded, "I think actually the   
   president's proposal is probably a bit misguided in that regard."   
      
   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/att-ceo-seems-confid   
   nt-industry-can-kill-bidens-municipal-broadband-plan/   
      
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