Chattanooga Fiber Survives Comcast Lawsuit

In April 2008, Comcast sued Chattanooga's municipally owned Electric Power Board, or EPB, seeking to stop it from building a fiber network for residents receiving slow internet service from the incumbent cable provider. Comcast alleged that EPB would illegally subsidize its cable and Internet operation with electric utility revenue, but Tennessee courts dismissed the case. EPB launched its service in 2009, after which Comcast and AT&T began upgrading their local networks. In 2015, seven years after suing to stop EPB's rollout, Comcast announced its own 2 Gbps fiber service for Chattanooga.

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