It seems to me that this article doesn't take into account the size and disbursement of the US population. Its not as hard for Finland and France to cover their country with broadband access, and to even upgrade it to handle higher speeds, but neither country are as large as Texas, just 1 of 50 US states.
After reading many of the comments, many seem to be at a loss for what CWA and SBC are, and why the post given front-page coverage. CWA=Communications Workers of America, SBC=Doesn't have an exact definition, was formally Southwestern Bell. The reason for the strike, if it happens, will be due to cuts in health benefits, passing more expense to the workers and on job security issues, one of many would be using less contractors for new equipment installations. As for reasoning it may have been considered front page coverage is two part, first would probably be that SBC is a primary provider of telephone and data lines for the two largest US states, TX and CA. Plus with the other states involved this could affect over 1/3 of the US population. Second might be that over 102,000 workers are threatening to strike, even though half of the strike would fall during the weekend, two days without that many workers will defiantly have ramifications for SBC.
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It seems to me that this article doesn't take into account the size and disbursement of the US population. Its not as hard for Finland and France to cover their country with broadband access, and to even upgrade it to handle higher speeds, but neither country are as large as Texas, just 1 of 50 US states.
After reading many of the comments, many seem to be at a loss for what CWA and SBC are, and why the post given front-page coverage. CWA=Communications Workers of America, SBC=Doesn't have an exact definition, was formally Southwestern Bell. The reason for the strike, if it happens, will be due to cuts in health benefits, passing more expense to the workers and on job security issues, one of many would be using less contractors for new equipment installations. As for reasoning it may have been considered front page coverage is two part, first would probably be that SBC is a primary provider of telephone and data lines for the two largest US states, TX and CA. Plus with the other states involved this could affect over 1/3 of the US population. Second might be that over 102,000 workers are threatening to strike, even though half of the strike would fall during the weekend, two days without that many workers will defiantly have ramifications for SBC.