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Court Clarifies Municipal ISP Rules

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s second highest court has clarified under what circumstances a city or town can engage in activities that private businesses ordinarily provide. The ruling comes in a case about the legality of the fiber-optic network Laurinburg was using to provide Internet access to itself and outside governmental and institutional users. The Court of Appeals held that because the wording of state law defining what constitutes a cable television system was ambiguous, the town could operate the network, even if it didn’t offer cable TV.

Michael Lowrey

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