. >> littlefield and city officials worked with their power utility, electric power board or epb, the hope was to provide faster cheaper service than was available. aneedlesneedless to say they wet happy. >> they paraded through my office to tell me why they didn't think chattanooga should go into this business to compete with private enterprise. >> epb went into a $111 million government stimulus grant but not before littlefield said he offered private telecoms the opportunity to do it themselves. they said no we can't afford to do that. i said we can't afford not to do that. meanwhile, comcast sued the utility to prevent it from building out its network. unfair advantage for profit companies. >> most companies provide broadband users a fee. doesn't have to make a profit, uses subsidies, it really is unfair. >> in the end epb prevailed and to date has almost 70,000 subscribers. the city fest credits its gigabit service for creating a new stem education program. >> our rates on par are about theirs. we were simply competing on the basis of service quality. i have to say we did it righ

epb, that's chattanooga's local utility which provides ultimateh speed gigabit service. and provides it just half a mile from the coltran live. >> we make a financial model out of serving some of those areas and can do ill fairly quickly. >> david wade is the chief financial a officer at epb. can't do it because of an existing state law that prohibits local utilities from expanding past their service area. wade says local telecoms don't want to compete with a local utility. >> reducing competition to be honest. >> i understand that any company is in it for a profit. the problem is: if they aren't willing to provide it for us, why not let somebody that is come in? >> so epb and the city of chattanooga filed a petition last summer asking the fcc fcc to challenge the law, major incumbents like comcast and at&t. wilson filed a similar request. >> the laws that we challenged were the product of lobbying by industry and persuasion of members of the legislature. >> jim bailor is lead council remitting epb and chattanooga. >> the laws are sometimes said to be for purpose of crea

i said, we can't not afford to do that. >> epb built 9,000 miles of fiber. comcast and others have argued that cities have an unfair advantage over for profit companies. >> most cities that actually charge broadband providers a fee and then if a city comes in and uses taxpayer dollars doesn't are to makhave to make a profit. it really isn't fair. >> epb prevailed and has almost 70,000 subscribers, the city credits its gigabet system for creating a new stem environment. >> we are competing on behalf of quality. we did it right. we did not actually compete unfairly with those giants, struggling as they are financially. >> reporter: and the competition has gotten even more fierce. in may, comcast announced it would offer its own 1 gigabit service, one upping the city. the 1 gig city should be referred to as the two gig city, thanks to comcast network. >> that creates real competition. >> if using regular internet is like triefg on a surface road, gigabit is like on a futuristic highway. critics say that cities may be investing too much taxpayer money into infra

. >> littlefield and city officials worked with their power utility, electric power board or epb. needless to say, the existing providers were not happy. >> representatives of at&t and comcast paraded into my office to tell me why they didn't think chattanooga should get into this business of competing with private enterprise. >> epb paid for the $320 million price tag with bonds, a line of credit, and a $111 million government stimulus grant, but not before littlefield said he offered to let local telecoms build out the infrastructure

>> so epb and the city of chattanooga filed a petition last summer asking the fcc fcc to challenge the law, major incumbents like comcast and at&t. wilson filed a similar request. >> the laws that we challenged were the product of lobbying by industry and persuasion of members of the legislature. >> jim bailor is lead council remitting epb and chattanooga. >> the laws are sometimes said to be for purpose of creating a level playing field, for the purpose of creating fair competition. but the way that the laws actually operate are to create barriers that the established carriers don't and can't comply with in most cases. >> and in february the fcc agreed with chattanooga and overturned tennessee state law. >> we have a situation where the federal government is preempting a state from preempting cities. >> tennessee's attorney general's office filed an appeal in september saying that the decision violates state sovereignty. we requested an interview and the ag's office declined pointing us to their appeal sais opinion saying quote, it goes against the united states. the fcc fcc calls the

. >> littlefield and city officials worked with their power utility, electric power board or epb, the hope was to provide faster cheaper service than was available. aneedlesneedless to say they wet happy. >> they paraded through my office to tell me why they didn't think chattanooga should go into this business to compete with private enterprise. >> epb went into a $111 million government stimulus grant but not before littlefield said he offered private telecoms the opportunity to do it themselves. they said no we can't afford to do that. i said we can't afford not to do that.

i said we really can't afford to not do that. >> epb began to install 9,000 miles of fiber. meanwhile, comcast sued the utility to prevent it from building out the network. comcast and others argue cities have an unfair advantage over for-profit companies. >> most cities charge broadband providers a fee, and if a city com comes in and uses taxpayer dollars and doesn't have to make a profit, it's unfair. >> in the end epb prevailed and has 70,000 subscribers, and the competition is more fierce. in may comcast announced it would offer its own 2 gigabit service in chattanooga. if using the regular internet is a surface roadway, using this is a futuristic highway. consider at average internet speeds it takes a half hour or month to download a two-hour high-definition movie. critics say that cities may be investing too much taxpayer money into infrastructure that provides way more internet speed than the average user could possibly need. you don't need a gigabit but a lot of cities make a mistake putting money into the networks way ahead of consumer demand. the consumers aren't a

epb, that's chattanooga's local utility which provided ul ta high speed service. the company has fiber infrastructure that ends just half a mile from where the family lives. >> we can serve those and make a financial business model work out of serving some of those areas, and can do it fairly quickly. >> reporter: david is the chief information officer at epb. the company is willing to invest $60 million to extend service, but it can't because of an existing state law. >> it's certainly about retaining service rights and service territories and reducing competition to be honest. >> reporter: and so epb and the city of chattanooga filed a petition asking the state law be overturned, charging that the law limits competition. wilson, north carolina filed a similar request. >> the laws that we challenged were the product of lobbying by industry and persuasion of members of the legislatures. >> reporter: jim bailer is lead counsel. >> the laws are sometimes said to be for the purpose of creating a level playing field, for the purpose of creating fair competition, but i

. >> so epb and the city of chattanooga filed a petition asking the federal communication to overturn the law charging that it limits city owned broadband from competing with comcast. nelson fired a similar request. >> the laws that we challenged from a product by lobbying by industry. >> jim baylor represented epb chattanooga and nelson. >> the laws are said to be for the purpose of creating a level playing field, for the purpose of creating fair competition. but in reality they create barriers that the established carriers can't comply with in most cases. >> in february the fcc agreed with chattanooga and overturned tennessee state law. >> we have a situation why the federal government is preempting a state from preempting cities. >> they filed an appeal in september saying that the order runs afoul of core constitutional principles and disrupts the balance of power between the federal government and the united states. >> there is no competition. there is no choice. there is no service. >> she said that changing the law is a challenge because of telecom lobbyists in tennessee. >> th

of the canadiens dash epb 2006 did a study to send a spacecraft robot to the moon of marrs said the russians have been trying to get better three times and they have all failed. the photographs that we see by the sun casting a shadow and knowing exactly where the sun was at the time the picture was taken, but they can measure to come up with a calculation that this object is 90 meters high. that is a football field. in this study that the canadians did, and all the engineers contributing felt this was sufficiently unusual so they call this the model with after the 2001 arthur clarke movie where the apes were doing things on the moon and there was a big object and that was called the model with. it is still there. i have seen the pictures of that. and i think strangely it was a natural occurrence. no evidence merely one way or the of there but it disturbs people that heard me describe

game tickets will give get you a ticket to bruins can epbs alumni game. >> bruins canadian owns outside tough ticket to get. >> incredible. we also had all kinds of great sports over the weekend starting with patriots. >> start with the bruins you mentioned the bruins we got to have a hockey team to play in that winter classic. three home games three employee out losses. this could be a very, very long year. zdeno chara in the line-up after missing two games upper body injury. first period david krejci slaps one past bishop. power play again. loui eriksson on the doorstep 2- 0. bolts tie it up two goes. brian boyle got the first it's 2-2 after one of second period power play 66 hd boyle takes it in oil beats as with the backhander 3-2 tampa. the lightning take the lead for good with steven stamkos rips home the one type i will err on the power play making it 4-3. they top the black and gold 6- 3. they are now 0-3 on the season. >> we got to be better defensively. the amount of goals from the goaltender on out. defense and coming back we got to be better. it used to be our strength now r

for the moment this is open epbed with no end in they will stay as long as the mission is thought to be important to the cameroon government, and as long as the americans are willing to help. >> thank you. a the war in syria, the after a third round of talks with u.s. counterparts on the rules that may have air-to-hair combat there is a convergence on the situation. we will have to explain that in just a little bit when we get that information. >>> refugees have sought asylum in sweden in 2014, and 86,000 have applied to stay there so far this year. jonah hull went to meet at least two of them. >> we are catch up with abera as their say li their asylum claims are processed. it didn't the sweden that they had imagined. >> the future here, i didn't think it would be like that. >> she shows me what appears to be bullying threats from immigration officials. >> no, no. >> if you hate it, go somewhere else. >> he argued with this guy from damascus. he said give me the and i will throw you out of sweden. >> he said give me your identify card and i'll throw you out. >> yes. >> i put all this