President Biden’s plan to expand broadband access and lower prices is, predictably, facing bitter opposition from cable companies that want to maintain the status quo.

NCTA–The Internet & Television Association, which represents Comcast, Charter, Cox, and other cable companies, argued that Biden’s plan is “a serious wrong turn.” NCTA is particularly mad that Biden wants to expand municipal broadband networks that could fill gaps where there’s no high-speed broadband from private ISPs and lower prices by providing competition to cable companies that usually dominate their regional territories.

Biden’s plan would make a $100 billion broadband investment and, per the White House’s description, “prioritizes support for broadband networks owned, operated by, or affiliated with local governments, non-profits, and co-operatives—providers with less pressure to turn profits and with a commitment to serving entire communities.”

Biden’s plan talks of “lifting barriers that prevent municipally owned or affiliated providers and rural electric co-ops from competing on an even playing field with private providers,” which may be a reference to overturning nearly 20 state laws that restrict the growth of municipal networks.

Consumer advocates have been heaping praise on the Biden plan. “President Biden’s historic plan places a big bet on broadband that is desperately needed,” said Gigi Sohn, a consumer advocate who served in the Obama-era FCC as counselor to then-Chairman Tom Wheeler. “Refusing to repeat the mistakes of the past, which have left tens of millions of people in America unconnected, the president’s plan prioritizes ‘future proof networks,’ promotes competition by lifting state barriers on community-owned networks, requires price transparency, and pledges to tackle affordability by, among other things, addressing the high price of broadband Internet access.”

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