Big carriers go political to kill local broadband

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4. I thought I smelled ALEC

A growing number of municipalities are answering “yes” by building their own networks and offering broadband services to their citizens. ALEC disagrees with their answer due to the negative impacts it has on free markets and limited government.

http://www.alec.org/task-forces/telecommunications-and-information-technology/municipal-broadband/

Their reach is surely more pervasive than we know, and we need to come up with a way to fight them.

If everything is always done more efficiently in the private sector as these economic neoliberals claim, then why are they so afraid of this competition by municipalities? What kind of "free markets" are promoted by laws that ensure Big Carriers will have monopolies?