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Getting Broadband To The Bayou
Caseylite points out an article in USA Today "about the struggle between the city of Lafayette, Louisiana and BellSouth. The big telecom objects to the city installing its own fiber-optic network, claiming unfair competition. The city says its goal is bringing high-speed data access to low income areas to break the poverty cycle, stating a link between broadband access and education and employment."
Presuming that overall, higher intelligence helps people succeed and thus not be poor, I would say that area does not have the same mental capacity relative to some areas of the USA. If musculature is inheritable, say from professional athlete parents, how about intelligence from nobel prize winners?
Wow. Do you know anything about the situation?
Considering there's a major dark fiber ring existing outside of the city, which is owned by the city, you automaticlly assume that they are trying to act as Big Brother.
Nope. It has nothing to do what-so-ever the oil bust (and this city was founded on their oil boom) looking for a new direction to bring business into the city.
Nah, let's just mod it "Interesting" becuase you make a paranoid, uninformend remark.
Government actually tries a "Good Idea" (tm), and people like you automaticlly assume the worst.
Your post is obviously a result of the lackluster educational system in Lafayette. Does anyone need more proof that the city should provide broadband?