LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network

Posted by Zonk on Sunday July 17, 2005 @10:48AM from the down-with-the-bell dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On Saturday, Lafayette, Louisiana voters gave BellSouth and Cox the collective finger and approved a municipal FTTH network by a 62% to 38% margin. The Daily Advertiser has coverage of the vote and possible repercussions. The hotly-contested vote was prompted by a lawsuit by BellSouth and Cox Communications, who bitterly opposed the plan. BellSouth threatened to close a Cingular call center if the plan passed, and the companies employed push polling, including statements that a city-run cable system might ration TV programming and block religious channels."

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Re:Los Angeles by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-17 11:17 · Score: 0, Troll

Well, considering that the population of the Greater LA Area is much larger than the population of Louisiana, and that the relative economic and social importance of L.A. is larger than Louisiana's by an even greater margin, I think I speak for most of the world when I say that we are only dimly aware that Louisiana exists.

However, we are grateful to the denizens of Louisiana for the fine assortment of hot sauces they have produced.