Stop making broadband builders bankroll someone else’s problem

Here is a principle so basic, so universal that it just might be bipartisan: You shouldn’t have to pay to fix someone else’s mess.

That commonsense idea sits at the heart of a recent Federal Communications Commission ruling that every policymaker, utility executive and broadband advocate in America should read carefully.

In Comcast v. Appalachian Power Co., the FCC unanimously found that Appalachian Power, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, was requiring broadband providers to pay for preexisting safety violations on utility poles unrelated to the new attacher.

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