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  • Big US ISPs Roll Out Push Polling to Stop Cheap Internet

    From the page: "There's been some dramatic developments in the Greenlight project happening in North Carolina. Essentially, the big US ISPs are doing everything in their power including lobbying the state to make it illegal to set up a superior ISP in the area. Now, reports are coming... more

    Reviewed by purplegem Jul 22, 06:55pm ( 22 reviews ) • zeropaid.com

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  • Rated by Heggs on Oct 17, 10:26am

    While nobody should be surprised that businesses try to minimize threats to their operations, this is a pretty shady story.

  • Rated by normanowens on Oct 12, 5:53am

    Shame on TimeWarner! They could do this to you!

  • Rated by the-fair on Oct 11, 2:17am

    The residents of Wilson, NC were tired of paying for slow, overpriced internet service, so they installed fibreoptic cables. Then they offered TimeWarner and Embarq the use of the new infastructure. Uninterested, these companies said no. The city realized they could save tons of money by running the ISP themselves and now the push polling internetmongers at TimeWarner have a bill in the North Carolina legilature to stop the city.

  • Rated by stevedtrm on Sep 29, 3:40am

    Appears to be small government attempting to resist big government in the form of the cable companies which work closely with treacherous murderous and sinister government spy companies.: "Essentially, the big US ISPs are doing everything in their power including lobbying the state to make it illegal to set up a superior ISP in the area. "

  • Rated by BeatSmash on Sep 27, 7:26pm

    What a bunch of fucking fools. I hope the big revel in failure.

  • Rated by xxmuhahahahahxx on Sep 02, 5:32pm

    Fuckin' capitalism at it's best. Idiots.

  • Rated by clytie on Jul 23, 7:10pm

    "Hi, this is John from AT&T. Are you fed up with the cheaper and faster internet provided by your local government? Well, we can help!"

  • Rated by purplegem on Jul 22, 6:55pm

    From the page: "There's been some dramatic developments in the Greenlight project happening in North Carolina. Essentially, the big US ISPs are doing everything in their power including lobbying the state to make it illegal to set up a superior ISP in the area. Now, reports are coming in that say that the big US ISPs are using push polling over the phones to get customers to side with legislation that would kill faster and cheaper broadband."

  • Rated by Greenlink on Jul 21, 7:39pm

    Those bastards.

  • Reviewed by SleweD on Jul 18, 7:06am

    As AYBGerrado said, trying this in the UK simply wouldn't work, we're getting gypped on phone bills and tethering instead of landline internet connections. Still, this won't work, they tried to make bluetooth and wifi pay services too, and see how that worked out.