• Dslreports, Thursday, September 1, 2016 4:41 PM

AT&T is mocking Google Fiber over rumors that it's looking to scale back ambitions to develop Gigabit broadband networks. "Google Fiber will no doubt continue its broadband experiments, while coming up with excuses for its shortcomings and learning curves," writes AT&T's Joan Marsh in a blog post. "It will also no doubt continue to seek favoritism from government at every level."

But AT&T's "lecture on level playing fields may ring a bit hollow," writes DSLReports. "This is, after all, a company that has lobbied for more than a dozen state-level laws that protect the company from market evolution and real competition, often using tactics like burying poison pills in unrelated traffic laws. Delaying competitor access to utility poles is just one of many tricks in AT&T's generation-old playbook for keeping broadband uncompetitive."

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