[CWN-Summit] CWN-Summit Digest, Vol 67, Issue 3

[catharine Rice]

Regarding North Carolina Broadband Battle:
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
 "Welcome to Hope North Carolina" after what we pulled off.  We expect to get crushed next week. Not a happy Goliath.

--- On Sat, 3/19/11, cwn-summit-request at lists.chambana.net <cwn-summit-request at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

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Today's Topics:

   1. "Fat Pipe Dreams in North Carolina" (Ben West)
   2. Re: "Fat Pipe Dreams in North Carolina" (Ben West)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:06:24 -0500
From: Ben West <westbywest at gmail.com>
To: International Summit for Community Wireless Networks Participant
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Subject: [CWN-Summit] "Fat Pipe Dreams in North Carolina"
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Did anyone happen to see this sad story playing out in NC?

http://www.innovationpolicy.org/fat-pipe-dreams-in-north-carolina

"There?s a big fight going on in North Carolina over rural broadband.
Representative Avila and Senator Apodaca have introduced bills that
would place some fairly light restrictions on the business practices
of municipal (government owned and operated) broadband networks that
have drawn the ire of network equipment vendors and out-of-state muni
broadband activists.

Charges and counter-charges are flying fast and furious.
Well-travelled muni broadband consultant Craig Settles says the
authors are in the pockets of Time-Warner Cable, and urges people
around the country to lobby NC legislators to kill the bills"

--
Ben West
http://benwest.name
me at benwest.name
westbywest at gmail.com


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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:11:27 -0500
From: Ben West <westbywest at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [CWN-Summit] "Fat Pipe Dreams in North Carolina"
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And a further update from this week:
http://stopthecap.com/2011/03/14/dollar-a-holler-industry-lobbyist-attacks-north-carolinas-community-networks/

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Ben West <westbywest at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did anyone happen to see this sad story playing out in NC?
>
> http://www.innovationpolicy.org/fat-pipe-dreams-in-north-carolina
>
> "There?s a big fight going on in North Carolina over rural broadband.
> Representative Avila and Senator Apodaca have introduced bills that
> would place some fairly light restrictions on the business practices
> of municipal (government owned and operated) broadband networks that
> have drawn the ire of network equipment vendors and out-of-state muni
> broadband activists.
>
> Charges and counter-charges are flying fast and furious.
> Well-travelled muni broadband consultant Craig Settles says the
> authors are in the pockets of Time-Warner Cable, and urges people
> around the country to lobby NC legislators to kill the bills"
>
> --
> Ben West
> http://benwest.name
> me at benwest.name
> westbywest at gmail.com
>


--
Ben West
http://benwest.name
me at benwest.name
westbywest at gmail.com


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