China's War Against Wires

hodet writes "On sections of Beijing Road, you can barely see the sky. On Tibet Road, they dangle in garden-hose rolls and knots intricate enough to confound a Boy Scout. Over on Hefei Street, one enterprising apartment dweller even used them to hang-dry selected cuts of meat. Tech-happy Shanghai, the most wired city in China, has a problem: wires. Telephone wires. Fiber-optic wires. Electrical wires. Wires no one can seem to identify. Black wires. Blue wires. Magenta wires. They're everywhere, and they're gumming up the works."

Comments

Re:That's nothing!

[alsta]

I call that Freedom of Choice and Free Markets. Why should a wireless provider not be able to choose what carrier it wants to use to provide its customers with services? If it were obviously such a big problem, how come the wireless providers haven't picked a common carrier?