An Old Tobacco Town Battles Over Smokin’ Fast Broadband

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Fordham Law School Professors Nestor Davidson and Olivier Sylvain wrote an editorial in The Wall Street Journal about how one small North Carolina town could change the future of the Internet.

Will the future of the Internet be determined by what happens in a small town in North Carolina? Perhaps. Wilson, N.C., once a hub for local tobacco growers, now styles itself the state’s Gigabit City. Wilson has a municipally owned broadband system called Greenlight that provides lightning-fast Internet services to the community. Greenlight has been such a success that businesses and residents in neighboring rural counties want to sign up.

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