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4 days ago by Phillip Dampier

The quest for fiber-based broadband service from consumers has reached the point where many have decided to accept or decline offers to purchase property in new housing developments based on whether they’ll have access to fiber or not. Those were the findings in a study from the Fiber to the Home Co ...

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13 days ago by Jay Ovittore

In the last two installments I covered the North Carolina legislators that had a hand in HB1252/S1004, legislation that would have severely curtailed municipal broadband projects in this state, and how they were involved in bringing the bills to the floor. I am now going to focus on some powerful, l ...

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17 days ago by Phillip Dampier

"This is not a rate increase, this is about fair pricing for everyone, seriously." It’s always an awful when you wake up with a bad taste in your mouth. That’s the flavor of industry hacks and sock puppets who spent a good part of yesterday and last night on the attack against Rep. Eric Massa and yo ...

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28 days ago by Phillip Dampier

The Federal Communications Commission is accepting comments from citizens until July 8, 2009 as they craft a national broadband plan. Free Press’ Save the Internet campaign has made doing that a lot easier for you and I. They’ve created an online form that directly interfaces with the FCC’s formal c ...

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31 days ago by Phillip Dampier

Monticello, Minnesota A Minnesota Appeals Court panel ruled this week that Internet access is a “utility,” comparable to gas, electric, and telephone service, and not merely a convenience. In a 2-1 decision, the Court ruled in favor of the city of Monticello, which proposed constructing an all-fiber ...

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32 days ago by Phillip Dampier

I’m a big cable or telephone company and I just caught the smell of broadband stimulus money… hundreds of millions of dollars worth of taxpayer dollars I want for myself and my investors. Why spend their money when I can spend yours? Stop the Cap! warned readers that parties with a vested interest i ...

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35 days ago by Phillip Dampier

Not every municipal broadband provider assures customers of a cap-free broadband experience. Some of the smaller providers serving the municipalities that cable passed by constructed their own networks decades ago to meet the cable television needs of their citizens. But because they lack the econom ...

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35 days ago by Jay Ovittore

Back on April 28th, I e-mailed the Mayor of Greensboro, Yvonne Johnson, requesting that the City of Greensboro look at the resolution that Raleigh passed opposing HB1252/S1004 and pass a similar resolution. I am quite aware of what goes on in my city, but this slipped past me. At the May 5th City Co ...

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39 days ago by Jay Ovittore

Following the Money: Cable's Best Friends in North Carolina Get a Payday In this second installment of “Follow the Money”, I will look at the sponsors and co-sponsors of HB1252 (Protect Cable Monopolies Act). The bill has a host of legislators involved here in North Carolina. The sponsors are Rep. T ...

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40 days ago by Jay Ovittore

Tomorrow’s House Public Utilities Meeting on S1004 in North Carolina has been canceled. We can pat ourselves on the back again for continuing to keep the pressure on and hold our legislators accountable. We must still keep writing our legislators and letting them know that they need to send HB1252/S ...

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