North Carolina

State News

  • An Raleigh Engineering Company is going to build a 500-mile broadband network in rural counties in North Carolina. To read more, please click here.
  • Sixty-nine counties in North Carolina were awarded $24 million in grant funding to increase broadband access for underserved communities. To read the full article, please click here.
  • Forbes.com releases their annual list of the most broadband-connected cities. Raleigh, North Carolina was number one on this year’s list. To see the full list, please click here.
  • The Daily Advancedocuments the latest counties in North Carolina to gain access to high-speed internet. To read the article in full, please click here.
  • An article posted in the Charlotte Observer cited recent census data to determine that North Carolina ranks 40th in the percentage of individuals who report living in homes with internet access. To read the article, please click here.
  • The Dispatch tells of broadband grants given to Davidson County. Read this article here.

North Carolina adopted the Consumer Choice and Investment Act as law in 2009. This bill, formerly HB 1180, removed outdated regulations which hindered consumer access to new services and technologies and modernized older laws to now allow the market to keep pace with the ever expanding variety of telecommunications options for consumers. This law will benefit the citizens of North Carolina by encouraging investment in further deployment and adoption of broadband and digital technologies. The new law also applies only to companies who choose to “opt in”, giving companies the choice to operate according to the rules that they believe will help them better serve consumers.