{"id":10960,"date":"2013-09-16T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10960"},"modified":"2013-09-15T20:49:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T01:49:38","slug":"why-your-city-should-compete-with-googles-super-speed-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10960","title":{"rendered":"Why Your City Should Compete With Google&#8217;s Super-Speed Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of the biggest obstacles organizers are likely to face are laws discouraging or preventing governments from competing with private broadband providers. So far 19 states have passed such laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt strikes me as crazy that some states are banning communities from building or expanding existing networks, even as we\u2019re subsidizing private companies,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n<p>He says these laws actually end up preventing incumbent providers from expanding higher speed internet services in many areas, because they know their existing legacy services won\u2019t face competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2013\/05\/community-fiber\/\">Why Your City Should Compete With Google&#8217;s Super-Speed Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest obstacles organizers are likely to face are laws discouraging or preventing governments from competing with private broadband providers. So far 19 states have passed such laws. \u201cIt strikes me as crazy that some states are banning &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[913,620,47,487],"class_list":["post-10960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-google-fiber","tag-last-mile","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}