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| Time Warner Cable Won't Compete, Seeks Legislation | | from the they-sure-seem-to-like-bad-publicity dept. | | posted by Soulskill on Thursday April 23, @11:35 (The Internet) | | http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/1521218 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ [0]narramissic writes "The good people of Wilson, NC pay $99/month for 10/10 Mbps internet service, 81 TV channels and telephone service. How'd they manage that, you ask? Well, the city-owned and operated cable service called [1]Greenlight came into being when the City of Wilson approached TWC and local DSL provider Embarq and requested faster service for the area. 'TWC refused the request. And so [2]Greenlight was born,' says blogger Peter Smith. 'Now Time Warner Cable and Embarq are [3]upset that they've got competition, and rather than try to go head to head with Greenlight on price and service, they've instead been lobbying the state government of NC to [4]pass laws to put Greenlight out of business. Apparently they're having some success, as the NC State Senate has proposed bills that would do TWC's bidding.'" Discuss this story at: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/04/23/1521218 Links: 0. http://www.itworld.com/ 1. http://www.greenlightnc.com/ 2. http://www.itworld.com/business/66863/time-warner-cable-wants-legislation-eliminate-competition 3. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14934 On Thursday 23 April 2009, David Storandt wrote: > This setup is in RTP, North Carolina. Lots of bandwidth providers in > the neighbourhood for rock-bottom pricing. Comparing ECFiber's > upstream options is tougher, requiring more transport to get to a > major metro market for fat pipes. > > Expect rampant over-subscription and miserable quality for voice > and/or video. Decent customer service? They had to cut costs somewhere > to sell service based on "low prices". > > For a government group to compete against private industry, especially > markets with competition already, is a tough moral sell to capitalist > standards. > > -D > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff > <[email protected]> wrote: > > RE >> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14934 > > > > Does anyone have insight into how one might start a triple play provider > > setup? I'm not looking to do it -- so I dont mean 100% real life example.. > > but .. where do you get enough bandwidth to offer 10/10 for $100? How do > > you get 81 cable channels and rights to distribute them? > > > > (The real life example would involve ECFibernet .. but who knows when I'll > > ever get that at my house). > > > > Stan > > > -- 3010 Rte 109 Waterville, VT 05492 email: rion_at_dluz.com web: http://dluz.com/Rion/ AIM/Jabber/Google: riondluz Phone: 802.644.2255 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/126/769 L I N U X .~. Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ POSIX RULES
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