Backlash on Municipal Broadband

I posted maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago about cities starting their own broadband networks to compete with private industry. To no one's surprise, those with the most to lose from this (cable comanies and telco's) are now lobbying to get laws passed to prevent cities from establishing such networks.

Check out the story at the link below for one of my favorite sites, slashdot.org.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/22/1414248