Rewiring (and Unwiring) New Orleans

stinkymountain writes "Is New Orleans bouncing back from Hurricane Katrina with the most advanced telecom system in the country? According to Network World, carriers have invested billions to rebuild the wired and wireless networks in the city, and businesses are taking advantage of new, advanced telecom services." This story selected and edited by LinuxWorld editor for the day Saied Pinto.

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What is with that web page?

[etresoft]

TFA takes up, maybe, 10% of the space on that page. The rest is all ads. I had to click the print button just to read it. That's just too much.

Re:You lived below sea level

[cowscows]

You're underinformed, and if you understood what the city and port of new orleans and the rest of southern louisiana provided the rest of the country, perhaps your selfishness would cause you to reverse your opinion.

A huge amount of oil, seafood, and other cargo all move through the local ports. The wetlands of southern louisiana are incredibly productive in terms of biology and seafood, despite the fact that they've been destroyed by the carelessness of the energy industry. Southern Louisiana has suffered mightily from the "progress" that the growth of the USA has demanded from the oil companies. The federal government did not build the levees to protect our shoreline, they built it to try to duplicate the protection that those wetlands provided us with before they let industry destroy it.

A lot of us gulf coast residents are sick and tired of a large number of Americans turning their backs on their fellow citizens, trying to convinces themselves that we somehow deserved it, in order to clear their consciences of their failure to help their fellow man. We're sick and tired of people like you who don't really know a damn thing about this area telling us how worthless it is, and whining about a couple dozen billion dollars for a government that spends hundreds of billions without blinking an eye.

Come down here and drive through some of the neighborhoods, talk to people who lost everythign through no fault of their own, see how hard many of us are working to rebuild our homes, and then tell us that we're not worth helping.