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[Mark Turner <jmarkturner AT gmail.com>]

It got amended to exclude the four operating municipal systems and 
changed the threshold that a city could use to start service from 90% 
broadband penetration to 50%. In essence, the bill was stripped of two 
things TWC wanted most.

It will be back at Wednesday's Finance meeting where there will be 
public commentary. My POV article will run in Tuesday's N&O and there 
are indications legislators are coming around, so I believe on Wednesday 
we will be in better shape.

We'll see how much of this the industry wants to salvage. I expect some 
surprises Wednesday. Today, though, went much better than anticipated!

WRAL streamed the whole meeting and it can be watched here:
http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/video/9283673/#/vid9283673

Mark

On 03/17/2011 04:09 PM, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> So what the hell happened with the bill today!
>
> --[Lance]