Da-Chief
03-28-2008, 19:00
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The city of Lafayette, Louisiana fought hard against BellSouth and Cox (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/63279), who tried desperately to scrap voter-approved plans to wire the city with fiber. While residents won't be getting the promised symmetrical 10Mbps connections and IPTV bundles until next year, the city says they're planning to offer free local Intranet connectivity to those who plug in to the fiber ring, according to App Rising (http://www.app-rising.com/gdblog/2008/03/the_latest_from_lafayette_la.html). The project says they'll be offering broadband for 20% less than local competitors -- the same competitors who hired push pollsters (http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3302948) to tell locals they'd lose religious TV channels and see rationed broadband if they signed off on the project.
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The city of Lafayette, Louisiana fought hard against BellSouth and Cox (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/63279), who tried desperately to scrap voter-approved plans to wire the city with fiber. While residents won't be getting the promised symmetrical 10Mbps connections and IPTV bundles until next year, the city says they're planning to offer free local Intranet connectivity to those who plug in to the fiber ring, according to App Rising (http://www.app-rising.com/gdblog/2008/03/the_latest_from_lafayette_la.html). The project says they'll be offering broadband for 20% less than local competitors -- the same competitors who hired push pollsters (http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3302948) to tell locals they'd lose religious TV channels and see rationed broadband if they signed off on the project.
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