Telco Sues Municipality For Laying Their Own Fiber

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."

Comments

Madness!

[bogaboga]

...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.

Re:"they only sued to save Monticello from itself"

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Craziness

[fahrbot-bot]

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...

The situation, in haiku form

[BcNexus]

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