{"id":4092,"date":"2011-04-19T06:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:01:19","slug":"morning-read-national-grid-at-odds-with-north-country-broadband-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/19\/morning-read-national-grid-at-odds-with-north-country-broadband-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  National Grid at odds with North Country broadband companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x205312717\/Franklin-County-broadband-firms-irked\">Plattsburgh Press Republican<\/a> is reporting on a dust-up between firms working to expand broadband internet access in the North Country and the utility firm National Grid.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is the price National Grid charges customers for the use of its utility polls.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Mohawk, which does business as National Grid, reached  agreements with the network providers in December, and pole-usage rates  were set.<\/p>\n<p>The entities developed their build-out plans and customer rates based on those costs.<\/p>\n<p>But  they were told by National Grid in January that it was raising its  usage rates, which they say will cost them an extra $3.5 million they  didn&#8217;t count on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The broadband firms have appealed the rate hike to the Public Service Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press Republican is reporting on a dust-up between firms working to expand broadband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4093,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}