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Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rated-c-for-can-you-hear-me-now dept.

wolverineinspector writes "Mink, LA is finally getting telephone land lines after the neighbouring communities got theirs in 1970. In the article they also say that as many as 6.2% of US homes don't have phone service - that would mean that 19 million Americans don't have wired phone lines available to them."

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  1. Re:why bother when there are cell phones? by nxtr · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you had read the article, you would've realized that they went to the town dump to make a call, because they got the best reception there.

  2. Rural Telecommunications Acts by green+pizza · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the USA, there are Rural Telecommunication (and electrification) Acts. I'm not sure about new construction, but I know that in rural Texas if you have an old isolated homestead in need of telephone service, you can call up the nearest telco and they'll string out lines no matter what it costs. It all gets paid for by federal grants.

    The only catch is the telco territory boundries. Sometimes two telcos will bicker over who gets to (or who has to) string the lines. A vist to your state's public services commissioner will get things moving though.