Free Wi-fi Prompts BellSouth to Withdraw Donation

turbosaab writes "Shortly after learning of the New Orleans plan for free city-wide wireless internet, Bellsouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate a damaged building to be used for police headquarters. According to the Washington Post, 'Bill Oliver, angrily rescinded the offer of the building in a conversation with New Orleans homeland security director Terry Ebbert.'"

Comments

Oh boy...

[JohnnyBigodes]

Jack Thompson, is that you *AGAIN*?!

What a bunch of cockbags...

[lewp]

There, I said it.

Re:BellSouth has been known to suck.

[Thugar The Terrible]

Ok, I've lived in the south most of my life and used many southern carriers. On the whole, Ma Bell isn't any worse than the others (although I also had issues with continued billing after cancelling ending up on my credit - easy to fight tho). My issue is that you seem to be convinced of a corporate conspiricy with a utility company that is not going to spend that kind of time (=money) to watch or stop anything you're doing. Heck, it takes an act of congress to get a provider to track down someone who is blasting the internet with viruses that saturate their lines, and that can cause them revenue loss! I realize this is /. a friendly outlet for anyone, including social malcontents looking for conspiricies to give credence to their damaged view on life but these comments are pretty far out! This isn't the new york times, but posting about flying a plane into thier building? Isn't there any responsibility in posting anymore? Take a prozac and go back to watching TV, internet usage is evidently stimulating the wrong areas of your brain. Oh, and if someone can get a 5 Insightful for that crap posting, please rate me negative for this.