🔒Response to op-ed from Elin Swanson Katz

To the Editor:

The response last week from Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz, to an earlier Hartford Business Journal editorial, demonstrates that the continuing evolution of her government broadband proposal is still bad policy.

More than a year ago, Ms. Katz proposed building a government-run broadband network without a clear assessment of the costs to taxpayers or an honest discussion of the need for such a project.

The Office of Consumer Counsel is empowered to protect the interests of consumers, but Katz's proposals concerning broadband, at this juncture, may only cost taxpayers more money and threaten the quality of their broadband service.

Paul R. Cianelli, President & CEO, New England Cable & Telecommunications Assn., Inc.