Wilson Business Thrives With Muni Fiber Network Community Broadband Bits Podcast 171
b'When Wilson decided to build its municipal fiber network in North Carolina, it found a strong opponent in Tina Mooring, store manager of Computer Central. One of the local business\' sources of revenue was connecting people to the Internet and they were fearful that they would lose customers to what became Greenlight, the municipal fiber network that delivered the first 100 Mbps citywide service in the state and later the first citywide gig as well. \\n\\nAs we noted in a post in August, Computer Central became a strong supporter of Greenlight and now believes that Computer Central would be best served by allowing Wilson\'s municipal fiber to expand to nearby communities. \\n\\nIn this week\'s Community Broadband [no-glossary]Bits[/no-glossary], Tina Mooring gives us the background and reasoning for this interesting change of heart. This is a short interview, but we hope to see more of these collaborations and partnerships in other communities, where local businesses can use municipal fiber networks to sell business-to-business services.\\n\\nRead the transcript from this episode here.\\n\\nWe want your feedback and suggestions for the show - please e-mail us or leave a comment below. \\n\\nThis show is 10 minutes long and can be played below on this page or via iTunes or via the tool of your choice using this feed. \\n\\nListen to other episodes here or view all episodes in our index. You can can download this Mp3 file directly from here.\\n\\nThanks to bkfm-b-side for the music, licensed using Creative Commons. The song is "Raise Your Hands."'