North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
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Re: North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
#2Welp, 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....
Re: North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
#3So, her answer is to boldly...do nothing? Does she view her inaction as heroic in some way?
Re: North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
#4Welp, 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 th…
I'm sure Time Warner Cable and Verizon will start using their profits to start upgrading our local network infrastructure any day now...
Re: North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
#5So, her answer is to boldly...do nothing? Does she view her inaction as heroic in some way?
There isn't really much that she could do here. The bill has already passed with the 2/3rds necessary to make her veto useless.
She took the most politically savvy position possible. It wouldn't have made any sense to lose political capital on a battle that was already lost.
Re: North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
#6Welp, 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 th…
Yep, I'm in Cary (not that Cary would ever install its own broadband, but I wonder how this will impact Wilson).
Re: North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
#7Welp, 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 th…
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.)
Re: North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
#8Our lawmakers love keeping us technologically irrelevant. Now if this bill had something to do with College Basketball it would have turned out different. -_-
Re: North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
#9Welp, 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 th…
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
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.. :/
Re: North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
#10So, her answer is to boldly...do nothing? Does she view her inaction as heroic in some way?
There isn't really much that she could do here. The bill has already passed with the 2/3rds necessary to make her veto useless. She took the most politically savvy position possible. It wouldn't have made any sense to lose political capital on a battle that was already lost.
There is a remote possibility that vetoing the bill would bring enough attention to the issue to force some state representatives to switch sides.