South Carolina: Effectively prohibits municipal networks by requiring them to invent phantom fees that would be applicable to private service providers – which would be subject to endless litigation. As with some other states, community providers would have to include unnecessary fees into their services to make them less competitive. Statute.
SC Five Year Action Plan Monopoly Comments
When state broadband officials conducted “listening tours” across the state to compile its Five Year Action Plan to qualify for BEAD funding the plan cited widespread criticism of monopoly ISPs.