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[Mark Turner <jmarkturner AT gmail.com>]

On 03/17/2011 10:18 AM, Matt Drew wrote:

> I'm opposed to municipal broadband, but I'm even more opposed to TWC
> using the state government to tell the cities what they can and can't
> do.

I totally agree, Matt. While I sure would like to have the 10 Mbps 
symmetrical Internet that Wilson has, it's up to each individual 
community to decide that - not the state and certainly NOT TWC's lobbyists.

In Raleigh's case I know a muni broadband system would face opposition 
from city leaders and others. I have a good rapport with Raleigh's 
leaders and still I have no realistic expectation that Raleigh will 
implement a system like Wilson's in the near future. That said, I 
certainly am angry that TWC would try to take that possibility away, 
however remote that possibility may be.

We did some real damage to the bill today and significantly weakened it 
with amendments.  I'm hoping we can finish it off at the upcoming 
Finance meeting on Wednesday.

For anyone interested, WRAL's Laura Leslie live-streamed the meeting in 
its entirety. You can watch it here:

http://www.wral.com/news/video/9283673/#/vid9283673


Mark