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Time Warner Cable Won't Compete, Seeks Legislation
narramissic writes "The good people of Wilson, NC pay $99/month for 10/10 Mbps internet service, 81 TV channels and telephone service. How'd they manage that, you ask? Well, the city-owned and operated cable service called Greenlight came into being when the City of Wilson approached TWC and local DSL provider Embarq and requested faster service for the area. 'TWC refused the request. And so Greenlight was born,' says blogger Peter Smith. 'Now Time Warner Cable and Embarq are upset that they've got competition, and rather than try to go head to head with Greenlight on price and service, they've instead been lobbying the state government of NC to pass laws to put Greenlight out of business. Apparently they're having some success, as the NC State Senate has proposed bills that would do TWC's bidding.'"
Corruption, corruption, corruption.
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>>>the city wanted to run fiber.
Yeah. Then what? Fiber IS cable. It's cable made of glass sheathed with plastic, so we have two cables running in parallel - one owned by Greenlight and the other Time-Warner.
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Um, no. If Greenlight uses city funds to subsidize it's operations and keep customer costs down, then TW would have trouble competing.
And, no, assuming that all government run operations are inefficient is to make false assumptions.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
So if you want the service so much, why don't you try to start your own company, and issue stock/bonds/etc. to cover the estimated costs of the project.
The liberal-asshole way of doing the same is to use the power of the government to tax everybody for something only you want.
You really would "agree wholeheartedly" with threatening to put me in jail (or worse) if I don't pay for something you want for yourself?
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.