MILWAUKEE (AP) — A new law restricting how the University of Wisconsin System provides Internet access could make things difficult for students and raise costs for taxpayers, school officials told auditors in a report released Tuesday.

UW schools are members of WiscNet, a nonprofit cooperative that provides high-speed Internet services to a majority of public schools in Wisconsin and nearly all public libraries. For many members WiscNet is able to offer services at half the cost of commercial providers, in part because it’s tax-exempt and also because it doesn’t have to pay for marketing and other operating costs.