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Six N.C. city systems make list of ‘broadband boondoggles’

RALEIGH – A North Carolina municipal broadband network has made the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Dirty Dozen” — 12 high-profile taxpayer-funded internet projects that have cost the public more than $2 billion. The North Carolina network is MI-Connection, which provides broadband service to the Charlotte suburbs of Mooresville and Davidson. MI-Connection —$80 million in debt and has an annual...

Barry Smith
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House bill would let Wilson extend muni broadband service

Rep. Susan Martin, R-Wilson, took a step Wednesday in clearing a path for Wilson to expand the area in which it offers broadband service. She has lobbied for a change in the law to allow rural areas to be more competitive with traditional providers. Martin filed one of 21 bills to close out the second...

John Trump
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Wilson Fiber-Optic Cable System Risks Taxpayer Money

RALEIGH — Wilson’s $28 million Greenlight fiber-optic cable system could be obsolete before it’s complete, sticking taxpayers and electric utility customers with the bill for the city’s investment. That’s the conclusion of a new John Locke Foundation Regional Brief.

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