U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has introduced a bill that would require state governments to become cable-franchising authorities instead of the towns that have done it for decades, Multichannel News
reports. The Texas Republican modeled it after a law in her home state that "appears designed to speed phone-company entry into local cable markets, as state governments would have 17 business days to
grant valid franchise applications and could not impose market-buildout requirements on new entrants."
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