Another update on the state-wide cable franchise bill. The latest edition of the KNS's Greater Knoxville Business Journal has this point-counterpoint between an AT&T spokesperson and Knoxville City Councilman Rob Frost:

FROST: "Competition is good, but the competition AT&T is talking about providing is to a fraction of our society. AT&T can come in right now, but they would have to provide their service to everyone. AT&T doesn't want to play by the rules that everyone else has.

"They're going to provide competition to the wealthiest of the wealthy and no one else. Government should not be in the business of allowing the creation of economic classes. This is coming from someone who traditionally votes Republican, but right is right and wrong is wrong, and this is wrong."

Read the whole thing.