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TechDirt reports
Wilson, North Carolina's Greenlight [publicly-owned ISP], has had to disconnect one neighboring town or face violating state law. With state leaders tone deaf to the problem of letting incumbent ISPs write such laws, and the FCC flummoxed [by a federal court] in its attempt to help, about 200 home Internet customers in [the town of] Pinetops will thus lose access to gigabit broadband service as of October 28
[...] Greenlight's fiber network provides speeds of 40Mbps to 1Gbps at prices ranging from $40 to $100 a month, service that's unheard of from any of the regional incumbent providers (AT&T, CenturyLink, Time Warner Cable) that lobbied for the protectionist law. Previously, the community of Pinetops only had access to sluggish DSL Service from CenturyLink.
Related:
Muni ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling (Ars Technica)
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:34PM
I totally agree. This is all the union's fault.
And while we are at it let's blame the rest of them leftie pinko commie scum as well.
Iama tellin ya. They come fer ma guns and there will be trouble.
*spit*
Aint no dirty hippies gonna stop me from doin what I want. This is merica! Home of the free and the brave an shit.
#Trump2016
(Score: 5, Informative) by JNCF on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:11PM
I totally agree. This is all the union's fault.
And while we are at it let's blame the rest of them leftie pinko commie scum as well.
I'm pretty sure that GungnirSniper meant the Union as in the federal government, not the union as in an organized group of workers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @02:06AM
My response and parody does not change regardless...