{"id":13445,"date":"2014-06-04T18:47:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13445"},"modified":"2014-06-04T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:47:42","slug":"hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiber-but-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13445","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber\u2014But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Throughout the country, companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, CenturyLink, and Verizon have signed agreements with cities that prohibit local governments from becoming internet service providers and prohibit municipalities from selling or leasing their fiber to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muninetworks.org\/content\/level-playing-field-0\" target=\"_blank\">local startups who would compete with these huge corporations<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused\">Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber\u2014But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused | Motherboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the country, companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, CenturyLink, and Verizon have signed agreements with cities that prohibit local governments from becoming internet service providers and prohibit municipalities from selling or leasing their fiber to local startups who would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13445\">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":[47,621,940],"class_list":["post-13445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-net-neutrality","tag-telecom-operators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445","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=13445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13446,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445\/revisions\/13446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}