Source: Colin Campbell, NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/22/18

With more than 600,000 North Carolina residents lacking any high-speed internet service, municipal leaders pushed this week for state policy changes designed to create public-private partnerships in which local governments build broadband infrastructure and lease it to private internet providers. The regulatory change is part of a bill that passed the House but has been collecting dust in the Senate Rules Committee for nearly a year, and an NC League of Municipalities report released Wednesday makes similar proposals.

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