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

Sat Mar 19 19:01:54 CDT 2011

Hi Catherine,

Thank you for responding, clarifying, and for giving the link to
the TelecomTV story.

I was indeed having a hard time try to suss out who is who in the original
story from ITIF.

I do wish you the best of fortunes in the coming week!

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:36 PM, catharine Rice <ricecb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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<http://telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47388&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#>"
> after what we pulled off.  We expect to get crushed next week. Not a happy
> Goliath.
>
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>    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<http://mc/compose?to=westbywest@gmail.com>
> >
> To: International Summit for Community Wireless Networks Participant
>     E-mail    List <cwn-summit at lists.chambana.net<http://mc/compose?to=cwn-summit@lists.chambana.net>
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> Subject: [CWN-Summit] "Fat Pipe Dreams in North Carolina"
> Message-ID:
>     <AANLkTinqLvpEvYEnkscKDGsbCdjfno0wL1wZ+0Mu+c3w at mail.gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=c3w@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <http://mc/compose?to=me@benwest.name>
> westbywest at gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=westbywest@gmail.com>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:11:27 -0500
> From: Ben West <westbywest at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=westbywest@gmail.com>
> >
> To: International Summit for Community Wireless Networks Participant
>     E-mail    List <cwn-summit at lists.chambana.net<http://mc/compose?to=cwn-summit@lists.chambana.net>
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> Subject: Re: [CWN-Summit] "Fat Pipe Dreams in North Carolina"
> Message-ID:
>     <AANLkTinXb_PjxtX2WNcOJ7oFe7zK5uxVF4BNqFPGswZE at mail.gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=AANLkTinXb_PjxtX2WNcOJ7oFe7zK5uxVF4BNqFPGswZE@mail.gmail.com>
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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<http://mc/compose?to=westbywest@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 <http://mc/compose?to=me@benwest.name>
> > westbywest at gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=westbywest@gmail.com>
> >
>
>
> --
> Ben West
> http://benwest.name
> me at benwest.name <http://mc/compose?to=me@benwest.name>
> westbywest at gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=westbywest@gmail.com>
>
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