“Broadband infrastructure has become the fourth essential utility supporting the social and economic development of a country, city or community regardless of its size. Building a municipal broadband infrastructure in Elblag opens up many new opportunities for the city and its citizens. “

Yesterday, Raleigh City Council passed a resolution opposing legislation under consideration by the North Carolina General Assembly that would limit or eliminate local governments’ ability to provide high-speed Internet and other broadband services to their citizens.

Paris said he would like to see public-private partnerships that could end cable companies’ repeated efforts to restrict municipal broadband networks.

A battle over the right of municipalities to offer broadband services has erupted for the fifth time in four years in the North Carolina State Legislature.

A lawmaker in North Carolina proposed a bill that would curtail communities from building their own broadband networks.

If as a community you say that you have a network and you want to use it for economic development, every community that says that, their need for 100 megabits or more is right now.

Such is the posture Martin County commissioners should take toward the possibility of commercializing the county’s soon-to-be-installed broadband network.