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: 2) by frojack on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:48PM
There is actually another solution in the works, which you might write your congressman about:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/community-broadband-bill-us-congress-eshoo [vice.com]
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/lawmaker-seeks-to-overturn-state-bans-on-municipal-broadband/ [arstechnica.com]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @04:51AM
The headline on that one might reflect reality a bit more closely.
This Bill Could Stop Protectionist State Broadband Laws, But ISP Control Over Congress Means It Won't Pass [techdirt.com]
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