Governor Mike Easley has signed Bill 831, which will standardize the process for siting wireless facilities in North Carolina. This will be the focus of the discussion held at the Carolina’s Wireless Association 3rd Quarter Luncheon that was initially announced back in early August. See our previous post to read more about the time and place for the event. To see the text of the ratified bill, visit the NC state website here.
From what I have been able to observe, the “driver” for establishing the new data service may have come directly from the White House. There it may be the case that some big-hitter campaign contributors got to the administration, or it may be the case that they were convinced by “experts” that BPL was the “magic bullet” to patch up the country’s woeful consumer broadband infrastructure mess. That mess should be cleaned up (as was beautifully demonstrated in northern Utah and elsewhere in the world) by construction of universal fiber-to-the-premises service, not ad-hoc engineering “patches.”
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