Lindsay Miller Quoted in AP: "Ohio Budget May Impact Broadband Money, Government Networks"

Ice Miller LLP partner Lindsay Miller was quoted in the AP article, "Ohio Budget May Impact Broadband Money, Government Networks."

The article included: 

The open-access broadband network Medina County created has helped improve access and lowered customers’ broadband costs, she said. But she said the budget legislation would block the subscriber growth that the county’s network needs to help cover its costs, and could jeopardize a private-sector partner’s $50 million commitment to expanding residential broadband in the area.

It’s also possible the restrictions could be challenged as an intrusion on local governments’ “home rule” rights under Ohio law, said Lindsay Miller, a former director of the nonprofit Connect Ohio who now works on broadband issues with the Ice Miller law firm.

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