Jay Ovittore has been following the broadband backwater fight and reports that the N.C. Senate version of the bill, S.1004 was gutted yesterday.
Says Jay:
S1004 will be in the Public Utilities Committee tomorrow and for the first time I don’t have to worry about it. The Senate used a procedural rule to gut the bill and replace all text with new text that allows Progress Energy to convert some of it’s Coal fired plants to Natural Gas.
The is not a mere mention of cable, municipalities, Time Warner, none of it.
HB1252 is still alive and I will track it as always.
For now we can all claim another victory against Big Cable!
Fantastic news.