AT&T Sues Louisville Over Google Fiber (wdrb.com)

Posted by timothy on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:59AM from the quit-looting-our-loot dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Louisville was one of the cities identified in 2015 as a potential Google fiber location? Since then, Louisville has completed the pre-work Google requires and, most recently, unamiously passed an ordinance to remove legacy bureaucratic speed bumps to installing fiber on existing utility poles. This applies to any telco wanting to add infrastructure, so that's good, right? Well, not according to AT&T. They are suing the city to block this ordinance and prohibit the city from using its infrastructure as it sees fit to provide better broadband to its citizens.

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Re:AT&T knows it cannot compete in the market by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-26 03:10 · Score: 5, Insightful

They can compete, but it is more profitable not too.
Re:Does AT&T own the poles in question or not? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-26 04:19 · Score: 5, Insightful

Funny how when AT&T pays for an irrevocable, unlimited, and permanent right to use a city's infrastructure, they get mad when city decides that agreement isn't going so well.
But when customers use "unlimited" internet to its fullest extent, they are thieves and need to be booted off the network via usage caps.