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[Tom Caswell <derpimpkar AT yahoo.com>]

I've been curious about something.  I hadn't heard the "obsolete fiber" argument before (I wouldn't buy that either) but I did hear Time Warner say the reason they backed this bill is because they wanted the same process in place for municipal projects as they have.  Levelling the field so to speak.  I realize monopolies are maintained by political shenanigans and even if the playing field were truly level, enough cash could sway votes.  I'm curious to know if the bill does impose the same approval process for both municipal projects and Time Warner, regardless of what may happen.

 

Also on a side tangent, Google Fiber is nice and everything but I would think their business plan is to provide the connection so they can watch what you're doing to better serve ads.  Google says it's providing the bandwidth to see what could be done with it.  I think they're charging for it so it's not totally free but I don't think Google is switching their business model to service delivery.  Does anyone else get this feeling?

 

Tom

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From: Mark Turner <jmarkturner AT gmail.com>
To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/ <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thu, May 27, 2010 12:20:43 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Urgent! NC Senator Hoyle to slam door on municipal broadband internet AND Google Fiber this week!

The bill's on deck for next week, June 1st. Here's the invite I sent out
to the Bring Google Fiber to Raleigh Facebook group:

Here we go again. David Hoyle's (D-Gaston) S.1209 bill that will block
any municipal Internet, broadband stimulus funds, and/or Google Fiber
projects will be brought to a vote. We scared the bill away yesterday
but its coming back.

We've got another chance to tell our state senators NO. Tell your
senator that, contrary ...to what Hoyle says, fiber doesn't become
obsolete. Our cities are investing in technology that could easily pay
off for a hundred years! Fiber is North Carolina's next-generation
digital highway and the LAST thing we need is to tie the hands of our
cities investing in their digital future with more red tape!

Please call your senators NOW and make plans to join us at this Senate
Finance Committee meeting.

Thanks for everyone's efforts yesterday. Our efforts are CLEARLY getting
people's attention - let's keep it up until June 1st!

Mark Turner
Bring Google Fiber to Raleigh

Thomas Beckett wrote:
> Mark Turner wrote:
>> Hoyle's bill WAS pulled today, thanks to everyone's efforts! However,
>> it's not dead yet and is expected to return in a slightly different form
>> in the next week or two.
>
> This is my concern.  Sounds like it wasn't "pulled" so much as "ducked
> out of sight".  Please do let us know about what happens with it.  And
> thanks for your efforts!
>
> Thomas
>
>

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