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Assorted Speeches in North Carolina House of Representatives on...
We have isolated some of the more stirring comments from legislators opposing the Time Warner Cable bill to limit local authority to build, own, or operate their own broadband networks. These come...
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Public Testimony in Senate Finance Committee Against Time Warner Cable bill...
We have again isolated individual comments from the arguments around Time Warner Cable's bill to strip local authorities of the right to build broadband networks vastly superior to their services. On...
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Time Warner Cable Bill in North Carolina Heads to Senate Floor
A short update on yesterday's hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on Time Warner Cable's bill (HB 129) to level community broadband in North Carolina: the bill was passed and will head to the...
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Time Warner Cable Bill his Senate Floor, Chaos Ensues
As Time Warner Cable's bill to limit competition from community networks nearly finished its exciting journey through the North Carolina Legislature, it found itself in a madhouse where the sponsor of...
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Time Warner Cable Monopoly Protection Act Heads to North Carolina Governor
It took far more longer than expected, due to the many phone calls from concerned citizens opposing it, but Time Warner Cable's investments in the North Carolina Legislature have finally paid off. A...
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Leading Critic of Community Network in NC Revealed to Be TWC Employee
It will come as no surprise to those familiar with this space that the leading critic of MI-Connection, a cable network in North Carolina owned by local governments, has been revealed to be an employee...
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FCC Commissioner: Blocking Local Broadband Authority "'Exactly The Wrong Way...
FCC Commissioner Copps spoke at the SEATOA Conference in Asheville, North Carolina, on Tuesday. He went out of his way to condemn legislation that would preempt the authority of local governments to...
View ArticleCommissioner Clyburn Opposes North Carolina Bill to Preempt Local Authority
I recently learned that several state legislatures are considering bills that are contrary to the deployment objectives of the Broadband Plan. For example, in North Carolina, the state legislature is...
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Wally Bowen, Tim Karr: Block the Broadband Power Grab
Wally Bowen, the Founder and Executive Director for the Mountain Area Information Network in Asheville, North Carolina, wrote the following op-ed with Tim Karr of Free Press. Wally gave us permission...
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Lessig, Doc Searls, and Others Call on Gov Perdue to Veto TWC Bill
As readers know, we have devoted a lot of effort to educating everyone about Time Warner Cable's Bill in North Carolina to kill local authority to build broadband networks. As time runs out for NC...
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RedHat VP Calls on Gov Perdue to Veto NC Anti Community Network Bill
As time runs out on the future of affordable, fast, and reliable broadband in North Carolina, more are calling on Governor Perdue to veto H129, the bill pushed by Time Warner Cable to kill local...
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After 4 Years, TWC Buys Its North Carolina Legislation
Last year, we put together a report with graphs showing how superior the community fiber networks are compared to incumbent operators like AT&T and Time Warner Cable. When we released the report,...
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Government Technology on TWC Bill in North Carolina
Government Technology has run an excellent article discussing the passage of Time Warner Cable's bill in North Carolina. We couldn't pass up reposting some of the quotes used in "Municipal Broadband...
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Poignant Videos from North Carolina H129 Legislation
Though the North Carolina fight is over, I wanted to include these two videos in our archive in case they are useful to those in the future who will undoubtedly cover the same ground.One is the...
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Global CIO: Consider the Benefits of Community Broadband Networks
Publication Date: June 2, 2011 Author(s): Jonathan Feldman Publication Title: Information Week Information Week has alerted Chief Information Officers (CIOs) that they need to pay attention to...
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Understanding the Wilson and Chattanooga FCC Petitions - Community Broadband...
Given the exciting development of the FCC opening comment on petitions from Wilson, NC and Chattanooga, TN to restore local authority to their states, Lisa and I decided to take over this week's...
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Center for Public Integrity Covers Big Telecom Attacks on Munis
The Center for Public Integrity recently published an excellent article worth sharing. In "How big telecom smothers city-run broadband," Allan Holmes describes the money-for-infleunce machine at the...
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Time Warner Cable Bill in North Carolina Heads to Senate Floor
A short update on yesterday's hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on Time Warner Cable's bill (HB 129) to level community broadband in North Carolina: the bill was passed and will head to the...
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Time Warner Cable Bill his Senate Floor, Chaos Ensues
As Time Warner Cable's bill to limit competition from community networks nearly finished its exciting journey through the North Carolina Legislature, it found itself in a madhouse where the sponsor of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Time Warner Cable Monopoly Protection Act Heads to North Carolina Governor
It took far more longer than expected, due to the many phone calls from concerned citizens opposing it, but Time Warner Cable's investments in the North Carolina Legislature have finally paid off. A...
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