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Telco Sues Municipality For Laying Their Own Fiber

Posted by Soulskill on from the we're-here-to-help-and-we-brought-lawyers dept.

unreceivedpacket writes "Ars Technica reports that a company called TDS Telecom is attempting to sue the town of Monticello, Minnesota for deploying their own fiber network. Shortly after the town voted to lay the fiber, TDS Telecom filed suit and notified the town that they would be deploying their own fiber network. The telco has recently responded to Ars Technica, saying they only sued to save Monticello from itself, apparently feeling that the municipality is unprepared for the onerous costs of maintaining such a network, and would lack the expertise to do so."

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  1. Phew... by introspekt.i · · Score: 3, Funny

    If only we had more good corporate neighbors like this that solved our own problems and did our thinking for us so we don't have to.


    Good lookin' out, TDS. Cough.

  2. Well in that case by treeves · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...the municipality is unprepared for the onerous costs of maintaining such a network, and would lack the expertise to do so

    It was right magnanimous of 'em to sue.

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    ...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
  3. Madness! by bogaboga · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...they only sued to save Monticello from itself, apparently feeling that the municipality is unprepared for the onerous costs of maintaining such a network, and would lack the expertise to do so...

    So the company loves the city more than the city loves itself?

    How ironic! This sounds preposterous to me.

    These United States never cease to amaze.

  4. Re:"they only sued to save Monticello from itself" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well yeah it's a fuckin' joke, just not the "ha ha" kind.

  5. Re:Inane by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 3, Funny

    I bring my own lampshade. Can't rely on the host to have one that fits.

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    Don't piss off The Angry Economist
  6. Re:Thanks, but no thanks by stinerman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, competing companies are magic beings (although of course they don't mean to be) and the government just ruins your life )when it tries to do more than keep the peace).

    You're not a LISP or Scheme programmer by chance, are you?

  7. Re:Craziness by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, if the council screws up maintenance, they can just sell it on to somebody who can handle it.

    I think there's a network admin in San Francisco that can handle this...

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    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
  8. The situation, in haiku form by BcNexus · · Score: 4, Funny

    a series of tubes /
    made of many fiber strands /
    stymied by lawsuit