Time Warner Cable's Community Fiber Assault Moves Forward - Bill Sponsor Marilyn Avila Knows What's Best For Your Town. Time Warner Cable's fourth attempt in four years to get North Carolina lawmakers to ban or otherwise bureaucratically strangle communities eager to wire themselves for fiber has passed a vote in the North Carolina Public Utilities Committee.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Marilyn Avila, handed her time at the podium during last week's meeting to Time Warner Cable lobbyist Marc Trathen, who then informed attendees that all community fiber efforts (like the ongoing builds in both Salisbury and Wilson, North Carolina, which deliver services superior to Time Warner Cable) automatically result in failure, dying puppies, crying children, and other assorted global chaos. Avila mirrored those sentiments ahead of yesterday's vote according to Stop The Cap: quote:Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-Time Warner Cable) decided that openly distorting the record of success community broadband has had would be a good way to proceed. We Will Soon Live in a 100 Gbps World: Broadband News and Analysis « Thanks to iPhones, tablets and Netflix, the demand for bandwidth is back, and that’s drumming up interest in expanding and building out fiber networks.
Today we think 1 Gbps fiber networks are enough, but soon we’ll need 100 Gbps, and a host of infrastructure companies are gearing up to provide it. Unnoticed by Silicon Valley, telecom is on the move again. Equipment and network companies such as Ciena and Adtran are reaping the rewards in their stock prices: Ciena’s stock has risen more than $14.74, or 117 percent in the last six months, while Adtran’s has risen by $14.46 — or 47 percent. Other industry players such as Infinera and Tellabs, however, have seen their stock prices fall. Www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/trai/upload/Recommendations/124/Rcommendation8dec10cndiv.pdf.