Telcos Lobby North Carolina to Make Community Internet Illegal, Then Abandon the State to 2nd Worst Internet in the Country

Date: 3 Jan 2013 | posted in: Media Coverage, MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Boing Boing, January 3, 2013

A lot of people were frustrated in 2011 when the North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill written by Time Warner Cable to revoke local authority to build community-owned networks. A new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Common Cause explains how Time Warner Cable, AT&T, and CenturyLink bought their bill.

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