Kansas wins network fight
p2pnet.net News:- A lawsuit brought by Time Warner over North Kansas City’s proposed fiber-optic network has been thrown out.
The suit wasn’t, "ripe for judicial consideration," Judge Ortrie Smith ruled.
Time Warner filed in December after the North Kansas City Council set aside $8.9 million to build the fiber-optic line and signed a planning contract, says the Kansas Business Journal, going on:
“An earlier city study said the city could offer subscribers 10 percent savings on prices charged by Time Warner for cable TV, the suit said.
“Arguing that the city apparently intended to build a system that couldn’t pay for itself without cable television revenue, Time Warner sued to stop the project in December.”
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Business Journal – Judge pulls plug on Time Warner suit against NKC, April 5, 2005
April 7th, 2005 at 9:25 pm
The cartel needs to fear. However, I don’t believe that network infrastructure construction is an activity that governemnts need to be involved in. I think it should be run as a member owned cooperative. That is the only form of utility company that should be allowed IMHO.