“While we are committed to providing reliable and affordable internet service to customers across the country, New York’s broadband law imposes harmful rate regulations that make it uneconomical for AT&T to invest in and expand our broadband infrastructure in the state,” the company said in statements provided to CNET and Ars Technica.

This is blogspam. While Ars Technica put this quote near the beginning of their article and wrote an article afterwards to put it into context, this short article gave AT&T the very last word.