North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law

Re:North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadb... by jonprins on Monday May 23, 2011 @11:18AM (#2576185)

Welp, this kinda screws over a couple family members. I know someone living in Cary (not even 20 minutes drive from Research Triangle Park) that pays something like $60/mo for a measly 6mbps home connection.

For another business they were working with, they used to get DSL through a local computer shop (Intrex). Intrex stopped their DSL service. AT&T refused to service that location at the speeds Intrex would. And the local cable monopoly refuses to run lines to the business.

The only saving grace would have been a municipal ISP, but this just screwed that over.

Good luck being relevant to technology in ten years, North Carolina....

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Re:North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadb... by ChrisLTD on Monday May 23, 2011 @11:37AM (#2576278)

I'm sure Time Warner Cable and Verizon will start using their profits to start upgrading our local network infrastructure any day now...

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Re:North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadb... by mgkimsal on Monday May 23, 2011 @02:04PM (#2576880)

Well, they did upgrade Youngsville, NC to wideband DOCSIS 3.0. I'm not terribly happy about supporting a monopoly, but I do have 30/5 service now.

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Re:North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadb... by js2 on Monday May 23, 2011 @11:59AM (#2576354)

Yep, I'm in Cary (not that Cary would ever install its own broadband, but I wonder how this will impact Wilson).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328544

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Re:North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadb... by jonprins on Monday May 23, 2011 @12:04PM (#2576375)

Very true - I've been following the Wilson situation fairly closely. I've urged the people I know down there to contact their elected officials about it, but got mainly apathy in response.

And yeah, I can't see Cary ever installing its own broadband. Though, the layout of the main roads (cary pkway, maynard) could make for a fairly easy rollout.

Except, well, all those twisty windy mcmansion subdivisions with their eighty page home owners agreements.. :/

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Re:North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadb... by sunburnt on Monday May 23, 2011 @03:30PM (#2577211)

From the "Save NC Broadband" blog [1]:

"Greenlight has been largely exempted from the bill’s effects. If you’re one of our 5,700+ members or you live in Wilson County, you don’t have to worry about service. Greenlight is here to stay."

[1]: http://savencbb.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/wilson-largely-exem...

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Re:North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadb... by robterrell on Monday May 23, 2011 @12:02PM (#2576363)

Have you friend in Cary look into Speakeasy DSL. They'll check the line and provision it for as fast as it will go. Before I moved to my current house, Speakeasy was the best among the bad options. (My current house can't get high speed DSL despite being a thousand feet from the CO due to someone wiring 13,000 extra feet of copper in the middle somewhere.)

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