Texas has an opportunity to take advantage of vast new broadband-driven digital transformations that promise to unleash a wave of innovations that can transform the way we learn, work, and live as well as bridge the digital divide. Cities across the state are hoping to accelerate this opportunity and are stepping forward with creative solutions for extending the benefits of ubiquitous broadband access to city residents. Like their counterparts in other States,the municipalities of Texas also want to do their part to help America shed its embarrassingly low – 13th in the world — global ranking for broadband Internet access. This isn’t the time to be erecting new barriers to broadband when we have communities throughout the state that are ready, willing and able to extend the reach of the Internet through advanced broadband networks. Rather than embracing this future, some opponents of municipal broadband projects are hiding behind a set of unfounded myths in order to pass legislation that would stall, stifle or stop these innovative community-based efforts.