{"id":14870,"date":"2015-02-04T00:34:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T06:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14870"},"modified":"2015-02-04T00:34:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T06:34:43","slug":"large-telecoms-strangle-municipal-broadband-but-fcc-intervention-may-provide-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14870","title":{"rendered":"Large Telecoms Strangle Municipal Broadband, But FCC Intervention May Provide Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>Greenlight provides Internet-only service ranging from 40 Mbps for $39.95 per month to 1 Gbps for $104.95 per month. There are also package bundles available that add TV and phone service.<\/p>\n<p>And wouldn\u2019t you know it; that finally got the big telecoms to respond. However, the response wasn\u2019t to build out infrastructure in Wilson or compete on price; it was to kill <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/tags\/municipal-broadband\">municipal broadband<\/a> efforts altogether in NC, citing unfair competition. In early 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncga.state.nc.us\/Sessions\/2011\/Bills\/House\/HTML\/H129v6.html\">House Bill 129<\/a> was introduced, which seriously hampered the ability of cities to create brand new broadband Internet networks, and put in place new restrictions to limit the pricing competitiveness of existing services versus private alternatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/large-telecoms-are-strangling-municipal-broadband-but-fcc-intervention-may-help-the-little-guys\">Large Telecoms Strangle Municipal Broadband, But FCC Intervention May Provide Relief<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenlight provides Internet-only service ranging from 40 Mbps for $39.95 per month to 1 Gbps for $104.95 per month. There are also package bundles available that add TV and phone service. And wouldn\u2019t you know it; that finally got the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14870\">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":[1121],"tags":[47,1344,487],"class_list":["post-14870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-municipal-broadband","tag-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870","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=14870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}