tl;dr: The North Carolina legislature passed a law in 2011 prohibiting municipal telecommunication services, but the city of Wilson was able to carve out an exe

tl;dr: The North Carolina legislature passed a law in 2011 prohibiting municipal telecommunication services, but the city of Wilson was able to carve out an exemption, because Greenlight (owned by Wilson) was already providing such services. Then the FCC tried to intervene, but Federal courts, on appeal it found that the 1996 Telecommunications Act is not giving this specific power to the FCC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlight_(Internet_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlight_(Internet_service)