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:Does AT&T own the poles in question or not? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-26 04:21 · Score: 0, Redundant

Except it's AT&T (and other's) live equipment that the city of Louisville tried to give Google permission to fuck with. Mind if I tow your car a few blocks so I can park in front of my house?