 By 2019 Mont Belvieu began offering a municipal broadband internet service, MB Link, as home rule cities in Texas are permitted to establish municipal internet.Mont Belvieu won a court agreement in 2017 that internet is a utility like electricity and water.Mont Belvieu chose this path because it was unable to persuade private telecommunications companies to expand or add new infrastructure for internet purposes, even after the city government offered to have the cables laid.