TDS has just filed an intention to appeal the recent decision to allow the City of Monticello to move ahead to deploy FTTH. The appeal is not unexpected. They had a month to appeal; that month was up today; they appealed (or filed the intent to appeal) yesterday.

The claim is that the decision to let Monticello deploy fiber “endangers the appropriate relationship between municipalities and private enterprise.”

I read about the move in the Monticello Times. Here’s what I think is the key statement on the case:

TDS argued that Monticello was “stretching” the definition of the state law, Statute No. 475.52, which allows a municipality to issue bonds for the purpose of “providing a public utility or other public convenience.”

So the beat goes on…