| Title | State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition | |
| Date | Saturday June 10 2017, @09:39AM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| from the quid-pro-quo dept. | ||
"I bet you that cost me my job," West Virginia Senate president, Republican Mitch Carmichael, jokingly told colleagues in April when he voted for a new measure that would expand broadband competition in his state.
Just over a month later it turned out to be true, when he was fired from his job as a sales manager at Frontier Internet, despite having recently been given a significant raise.
Frontier Internet is the state's largest high-speed internet provider and it was implacably opposed to the measure that Carmichael voted in favor of: one that allows up to 20 families or businesses to form a co-op to provide broadband in areas that are currently poorly served. It also lets cities and counties band together to build municipal networks.
-- submitted from IRC
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