Hi Catherine,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for responding, clarifying, and for giving the link to the TelecomTV story.</div><div><br></div><div>I was indeed having a hard time try to suss out who is who in the original story from ITIF.<br>
<br></div><div>I do wish you the best of fortunes in the coming week!</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:36 PM, catharine Rice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ricecb@yahoo.com">ricecb@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><span style="font-weight:bold">Regarding North Carolina Broadband Battle:</span><br>
Just a followup to this. Sorry to report that the article referred to by Ben from ITIF is by a guy who took a $20K stipend from TWC last summer and is known in all circles as as industry-shill. It was a response to all our pro-community broadband bloggers. The regulation TWC has written in this bill (H129) is not "light" as Richard Bennett's writes, but carefully structured to shut down the two most advanced fiber networks in the North Carolina (built by Salisbury and Wilson (FTTH)) and prevent any new systems from developing, even in our rural areas where the current incumbents openly refuse to build. We were able to get two amendments passed Wednesday, whereupon we saw TWC's top lobbyist signal to the Finance Committee staff and the Chairman changed the
instruction to the audience from "We will vote this bill today" to "We will vote this bill next Wednesday." TWC clearly felt it needed to regroup. You might enjoy this article instead called "<a href="http://telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47388&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#" target="_blank">Welcome to Hope North Carolina</a>" after what we pulled off. We expect to get crushed next week. Not a happy Goliath.<br>
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<br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:06:24 -0500<br>From: Ben West <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=westbywest@gmail.com" target="_blank">westbywest@gmail.com</a>><br>To: International Summit for Community Wireless Networks Participant<br>
E-mail List <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=cwn-summit@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">cwn-summit@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>Subject: [CWN-Summit] "Fat Pipe Dreams in North Carolina"<br>Message-ID:<br>
<AANLkTinqLvpEvYEnkscKDGsbCdjfno0wL1wZ+0Mu+<a href="http://mc/compose?to=c3w@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">c3w@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252<br><br>Did anyone happen to see this sad story playing out in NC?<br>
<br><a href="http://www.innovationpolicy.org/fat-pipe-dreams-in-north-carolina" target="_blank">http://www.innovationpolicy.org/fat-pipe-dreams-in-north-carolina</a><br><br>"There?s a big fight going on in North Carolina over rural broadband.<br>
Representative Avila and Senator Apodaca have introduced bills that<br>would place some fairly light restrictions on the business practices<br>of municipal (government owned and operated) broadband networks that<br>have drawn the ire of network equipment vendors and out-of-state muni<br>
broadband activists.<br><br>Charges and counter-charges are flying fast and furious.<br>Well-travelled muni broadband consultant Craig Settles says the<br>authors are in the pockets of Time-Warner Cable, and urges people<br>
around the country to
lobby NC legislators to kill the bills"<br><br>--<br>Ben West<br><a href="http://benwest.name" target="_blank">http://benwest.name</a><br><a href="http://mc/compose?to=me@benwest.name" target="_blank">me@benwest.name</a><br>
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To: International Summit for Community Wireless Networks Participant<br> E-mail List <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=cwn-summit@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">cwn-summit@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [CWN-Summit] "Fat Pipe Dreams in North Carolina"<br>
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<br>And a further update from this week:<br><a href="http://stopthecap.com/2011/03/14/dollar-a-holler-industry-lobbyist-attacks-north-carolinas-community-networks/" target="_blank">http://stopthecap.com/2011/03/14/dollar-a-holler-industry-lobbyist-attacks-north-carolinas-community-networks/</a><br>
<br>On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Ben West <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=westbywest@gmail.com" target="_blank">westbywest@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Did anyone happen to see this sad story playing out in NC?<br>
><br>> <a href="http://www.innovationpolicy.org/fat-pipe-dreams-in-north-carolina" target="_blank">http://www.innovationpolicy.org/fat-pipe-dreams-in-north-carolina</a><br>><br>> "There?s a big fight going on in North Carolina over rural broadband.<br>
> Representative Avila and Senator Apodaca have introduced bills that<br>> would place some fairly light restrictions on the business practices<br>> of municipal (government owned and operated) broadband networks that<br>
> have drawn the ire of network equipment vendors and out-of-state muni<br>> broadband activists.<br>><br>> Charges and counter-charges are flying fast and furious.<br>> Well-travelled muni broadband consultant Craig Settles says the<br>
> authors are in the pockets of Time-Warner Cable, and urges people<br>> around the country to lobby NC legislators to kill the bills"<br>><br>> --<br>> Ben West<br>> <a href="http://benwest.name" target="_blank">http://benwest.name</a><br>
> <a href="http://mc/compose?to=me@benwest.name" target="_blank">me@benwest.name</a><br>> <a href="http://mc/compose?to=westbywest@gmail.com" target="_blank">westbywest@gmail.com</a><br>><br><br><br>--<br>Ben West<br>
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