[CWN-Summit] "Fat Pipe Dreams in North Carolina"

[Ben West]

There is a thread about this on Hacker News (pretty influential, employees
from Google, Oracle, etc often show up), inspired by the recent Ars Technica
story.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387361
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/cable-backed-anti-muni-broadband-bill-advances-in-north-carolina.ars


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
>



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Ben West
westbywest at gmail.com
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