3 Jan 2013

The Empire Lobbies Back: How Big Cable Killed Competition in North Carolina

by | Date: 3 Jan 2013 | posted in: information, MuniNetworks, Press Release | 4 Facebooktwitterredditmail

After a city in North Carolina built a Fiber-to-the-Home network competing with Time Warner Cable, the cable giant successfully lobbied to take that decision away from other cities. The city of Wilson’s decision and resulting network was recently examined in a case study by Todd O’Boyle and Christopher Mitchell titled Carolina’s Connected Community: Wilson Gives Greenlight … Read More
5 Dec 2012

Report: Community Network Leads North Carolina to Fast Internet Future

by | Date: 5 Dec 2012 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 1 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Following the collapse of key industries, a town of 50,000 in eastern North Carolina had to make a hard choice. It wanted to support existing businesses and attract new ones but the cable and telephone companies were not interested in upgrading their networks for cutting edge capacity. So Wilson decided to build its own fiber optic … Read More

1 2