Cable Wars
"There is a town in North Carolina that attempted to get Embarq (a DSL provider) and Time Warner Cable to increase the speed of their broadband offerings. When they refused, the town became an Internet Service provider and let the data floodgates open wide. They called the service Greenlight. Now Time Warner is lobbying the state of North Carolina to shut it down due to the competition with their Roadrunner cable modem service. You got to suspiciously watch Time Warner. They will stab you in the back every chance they get."
My
name is Brian Bowman. I’m the Public Affairs Manager for the City of
Wilson, NC, and I’ll bet my broadband is faster than yours.
If the cable/phone companies really want a level playing field, they’d
open their books just like we do in the spirit of open meetings and
open records law. They don’t want a level playing field. They want to
be the only team on the field.
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