New peice from WRAL about hb1587 called Committee OKs Bill to Limit Municipal Telecom Plans. Check out the text here and the video here. This one was pretty factual with a good balance between the views. But I just don’t agree this is about any kind of fairness. No matter what big telecom says we [...]
Story from the News&Record called Internet bill worries Greensboro about The City of Greensboro’s take on this bad bill hb1587. Nice to see some reporting on this from the Triad.
Bill opponents are most concerned about the ability to offer Internet access, which is increasingly seen as a necessity for businesses and education. They say [...]
I went to the NC House Utilities Committee meeting this morning. It was held in the North Carolina Legislature building. I’d never been inside before and it was an eye opening experience. I was there to oppose The Local Government Fair Competition Act. Man this bill is anything but fair for local governments and its [...]
Yet another North Carolina City opposes HB1587! Fayetteville, NC passed a resolution against the Local Government Fair Competition Act. Here are some good bits.
WHEREAS, HB1587 is not designed to make competition fair, but to greatly hinder local governments from providing needed services where existing high quality internet services are non-existent and where private companies have [...]
FreePress.net is keeping track of legislation throughout the United States. Including North Carolina’s bad bill HB1587. From their page Legislation in North Carolina I learned about a good article at MuniWireless.com called Here we go again!.
Here is an interesting bit:
A story this week in ComputerWorld highlights Charlotte where city officials have not proceeded with a deployment [...]
Good bit of journalism about the bad bill HB1587 from WRAL. You can watch the video here. Text of story here. I’m glad they focused on the effect this bill could have on the citizens of North Carolina. Brian Bowman got some good sound bites in.
Yesterday the NC House Utility Committee [excel file of emails] meet and discussed HB 1587, “The Local Government Fair Competition Act”. Turns out lots of people showed up and spoke in favor and against the bill. So the committee vote was delayed until Wednesday June 6 at 10am. Here is a synopsis of the meeting [...]
I found this cool blog called The Fiber Optic Files - Wilson, NC today. Its written by Brian Bowman, the Public Affairs Manager for the City of Wilson. He linked to my post about the bad bill NC HB 1587. From there I learned more about the fiber network Wilson is constructing and the wonderful [...]
As I write this NC HB 1587 is before the Utilities Committee for consideration. Big Telecommunications companies want to prevent democratically elected bodies from bringing broadband Internet access to everyone.
Please ask your NC state Rep to vote No or ask their colleague to vote No!
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