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[Matt Drew <matt.drew AT gmail.com>]

Also. while Christian and I may disagree on other things, I also
believe this bill is a bad idea and will be opposing it.  We can't fix
issues with the current telecom and cable pseudo-monopolies and
favoritism by further entrenching those protections. If Wilson or any
other city wants to build a network as infrastructure, that's their
business, not the state's. I might disagree that it's a good idea, but
it should be the choice and fight of the people who live in those
cities.

Matt

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:56 AM, christian stalberg
<cstalberg AT web-analysts.net> wrote:
> >From a Facebook group for those of us who aren't on Facebook:
>
>> Friends:
>>
>> Sen. David Hoyle will bring his S.1209 bill (the
>> anti-municipal-broadband bill) to a vote this week, possibly
>> Wednesday. If this bill passes, public-private partnerships like
>> Google Fiber are doomed in North Carolina. Federal broadband stimulus
>> dollars will be barred from bridging the digital divide in our state.
>> In short, we'll be stuck with slow broadband and our embarrassing rank
>> of 41st in the country for broadband service.
>>
>> But there's still time. Please call your state senator TODAY and urge
>> them to oppose S.1209. Only if our representatives hear from us will
>> we keep our broadband options open.
>>
>> Jay Ovittore of Stop The Cap has a great write up about what's at
>> stake and includes contact information for the senators involved:
>>
> http://stopthecap.com/2010/05/24/action-alert-stop-sen-hoyles-anti-municipal
> -broadband-bill-in-north-carolina/
>>
>> A little push now can go a LONG way. Thanks for your efforts!
>>
>> Mark Turner
>> Bring Google Fiber to Raleigh
>
> There is also a great list on Jay's page with the names, phone numbers
> and e-mail addys of the Senators. We must stop this NOW!
>
> Let your Senators know that a vote for Hoyle's bill will keep NC 41st or
> worse in Internet access, stifle economic development. Remember Jim
> Hunt's "information superhighway"? Well Hoyle's bill is forcing folks
> like me in Raleigh to get onto the highway in a Ford Model T while we
> should be driving fuel-efficient and faster hybrids. For those
> communities that aren't served by a private company like Time-Warner
> (because they can't squeeze out the sort of numbers or rates needed to
> pay their fat-cat CEOs the salaries they so "richly" deserve), they are
> keeping those communities in the horse-drawn buggies and won't even let
> a community - or Google - build them an on-ramp.
>
> Why is this? Because Time Warner and the other companies claim they
> can't compete, and because municipalities don't pay taxes. Well, I'd
> like to see Time Warner's tax form - to see just how much that company
> pays in taxes to the State. If they are like most modern American
> companies, you know they got accountants and tax lawyers to cook the
> books so they make a profit but pay no taxes. Or worse, they don't show
> a profit to the stockholders, but the CEO still makes his bonus because
> they have cleared some hurdle.
>
> [ from Chris Telesca on Democracy4NC ]
>
>
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