Gop Overhaul of Broadband Permit Laws: Cities Hate It, Cable Companies Love It

Is the question at hand about balancing local building authorization with the government's intent to encourage a specific kind of national infrastructure businesses?

This seems to be supported by this quote:

> Putting arbitrary deadlines on state, local, and Tribal governments to start and finish complicated permit reviews...

I'm not an American but I am alarmed at the recent tendency for bad-faith rule making. However - the above sounds in reasonably good faith - is that indeed the case or am I missing some angle?

This sounds fantastic. "Local control over building" always ends up being a bunch of NIMBYs making life hard. Considering the amount of "it will ruin this community" I've heard about literally every possible thing, and the idea of "environmental review" to block a "historic parking lot" from being replaced by a food bank, I think a deadline with by-right building is good.

My 30 year old neighborhood in CA is _just_ getting fiber laid now. I have cox over coaxial and my internet uptime is a mess. They don't care, where else am I gonna go? I welcome a federal effort to lay fiber and eliminate any reason a normal consumer would ever need to contact a coax cable for the rest of their lives.