| reply to Rep Thom Tillis
Re: Let's get the facts straight Any rational person knows, no matter how much Mr. Tillis may protest, who wrote H1252 and what happened at last Wednesday's mark-up in the House Science and Technology Committee of the North Carolina House. H1252 would block all municipal competition in the broadband market in North Carolina and was written by and for powerful mega-corporate interests. In simple terms, Time Warner needs the cash surplus generated by its North Carolina systems to fend off the fierce competition being mounted by Verizon in the form of FIOS in New York and other parts of Time Warner's service area. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why Time Warner would like to block competition from advanced municipal broadband systems in a market that is currently served primarily by primitive cash cows.
And cry me a river over Mr. Bowman's blog!!! Why shouldn't Mr. Bowman defend and support the broadband system that the good people of Wilson decided to build through the democratic process? Oh, I forgot - the only constituents who matter are those who have been gouging the citizens of North Carolina for years - the citizens of Wilson be damned when there is a corporate interest to be served . . . . |
