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New US Senate Bill could Protect NC Broadband

By On July 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The wonderful website MuniWireless reports about a US Senate Bill called the Community Broadband Act of 2007.

The bill, the Community Broadband Act of 2007, protects consumers on two fronts: It prohibits states from adopting legislation, like the bill pending in North Carolina, which denies local governments the right to deploy municipal broadband [...]

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Join NC Public Broadband List

By On July 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Not long after I learned about HB1587, the bad NC House bill, I started a Google Group called NC Public Broadband. Its a email list with the goal of keeping people in the loop about what’s going on in the fight to protect community broadband. Its mainly an announce list but you can respond [...]

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Town of Chapel Hill supports G.A.T.E.

By On June 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment

G.A.T.E. Greater Access to Technology for Everyone

I’m really happy to see the Town of Chapel Hill promoting their opposition to HB1587. They stood up to a really bad bill in the NC House of Representatives. The Town of Chapel Hill passed a resolution opposing HB1587 on June 11, 2007. [...]

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City of Greensboro Opposes HB1587

By On June 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Last night the Greensboro City council passed a resolution opposing HB1587. That brings the count of communities opposing HB1587 to seven nine. The others are the City of Wilson, City of Fayetteville, City of Rocky Mount, Town of Carrboro, Town of Chapel Hill, Polk County, City of Monroe, [...]

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Google and Intel letters about HB1587

By On June 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Check out these two letters. One from Google’s State Policy Council John Burchett [PDF] and one from Intel’s Director of Communications policy Peter K. Pitch [PDF]. Both are to Speaker of the House Joe Hackney, Gov. Easley, and other Committee Representatives. They both speak against HB1587!

Google strongly opposes HB1587 and Intel writes [...]

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Why Muni Networks get Built

By On June 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Local governments don’t spend millions of dollars and go through great hassle to create telecommunications monopolies. Most often they get into the business of providing infrastructure because the private sector won’t do it or can not do it at a high enough level. (DSL sucks and Cable modems are just enough)

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