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Charlotte, NC | Unintended fallout If Embarq loses the revenue from Wilson and other small towns who provide the revenue to fund basic phone service just outside the fiber footprints? They must provide service to everybody in their area of service. If this keeps up rural telephone prices will become sky high or you will be taxed to subsidize the service as the big cities do now. Many of the rural subscribers in Embarq's service area have a hard time paying their bill as cheap as POTS is these days.
TWC is another story cable is more fair game because they do not provide universal service.
If a town can do it why can private investors not make a profit doing the same thing. From what I read the bill did not stop the project it just kept government from subsidizing by sharing personal and other city resources that a private company would not be able to use. The bill just puts everybody on an equal footing. If the project should fail who will pay the bonds? |
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Charlotte, NC | It's funny Google is sticking their nose in this. They got fortune in tax breaks for a server farm in Western NC. Why are they not putting up the funds for this project could it be they want a cheap ride on everybody dumb pipes. |
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