22May/110
Daily Dose of Big-Cable Bullshit: Cable-backed Bill Restricting Municipal Broadband to Become Law
The town of Wilson, North Carolina grew collectively fed up with the poor quality and high cost of broadband offered by commercial ISPs, so they did the sensible thing: They made their own, called Greenlight--a fiber-to-home network for internet, video, and phone service that's faster and cheaper than that offered by the big cable companies.
Now, do Time Warner Cable and Embarq take this as indication that maybe, just maybe, they ought to improve their service and make their prices more affordable? No, of course not, don't be ridiculous. They send in their lobbyists, pushing hard and greasing politician palms to pass a bill that would effectively crush this effort, and any others like it in the state of North Carolina.
Disgusting.