IndyWeek has an interesting read on the North Carolina city of Wilson, which is providing all of its residents with fiber optic triple play services via a city-run operation named Greenlight. Greenlight offers symmetrical connections from 10Mbps ($34.95) up to 100Mbps ($299.95), something that obviously doesn't make local competitor Time Warner Cable very happy. Author Fiona Morgan offers as concise of a description of this country's rural broadband problems as you're likely to see:Wilson's solution is to do it themselves. As usual though, I'll note that local incumbents want to have their cake (slow, limited deployment of services to protect coffers, limited competition) but want to eat it too (they're trying to pass North Carolina laws that greatly limit the ability of cities like Wilson from wiring themselves with fiber when nobody else will).