Cities, States Face Off On Municipal Broadband

Today, Wilson is North Carolina’s first "Gigabit City." Its Greenlight broadband utility serves 7,000 of 50,000 residents with Internet speeds between 20 Mbps, or 20 megabits per second, and 1 Gbps, or 1 gigabit per second. That’s just about the fastest speed around, roughly 20 times faster than what private cable companies typically offer. Only about 10 percent of U.S. homes have access to service that fast.

By Jeffrey Stinson

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