About six months later, the cable company - renamed MI-Connection - requested and received an additional $12.5 million from the towns.
Then on Jan. 30 of this year - just after the cable system celebrated its first birthday - the Mooresville Tribune published the following article, titled "Some fees to rise for MI-Connection customers": http://www2.mooresvilletribune.com/content/2009/jan/30/some-fees-rise-mi-connection-customers/news-local/
And hitting the mailboxes of MI-Connection subscribers either today or early next week: a notice that cable rates are going up an average of 9.3 percent, effective July 1, "as a result of the increased costs to MI-Connection" for "programming and other services."
In case you haven't received your notice already, here's a sneak peak of what you'll get:
And for a list of Frequently Asked Questions compiled by MI-Connection, click on these documents: