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Time Warner Cable Cannot Possibly Compete With The Small City Of Wilson, NC
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Peacey says,
Now that is an outstanding idea.
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Article excerpt from consumerist.com — "The city of Wilson , NC was tired of high internet, cable, and telephone prices, so they decided to do something about it. They started their own, city-owned, ISP .Now Time Warner Cable and Embarq have teamed up to convince North Carolina 's legislature to propose bills outlawing community owned ISPs because the big guys cannot possibly...

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Posted 1 year ago
My town is doing the same thing -- fiber optic! Fuck Time Warner. They've raised my bill steadily over the past two years and the service is utter crap. I cannot wait till Fibrant (the local service) gets off the ground so I can ditch TW.

I wonder what their argument against it is: "Hey, these guys want to disrupt our monopoly on internet service... um... can you stop them, or something?"
 
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