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Tuesday, December 06, 2005
New Orleans wifi: BellSouth is pissed
This is too bad, but not surprising. From Saturday's Washington Post:
Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its damaged buildings that would have housed new police headquarters, city officials said yesterday.
The big telecom companies really don't like municipally owned networks.
December 6, 2005 at 09:52 AM in Wi-fi/Broadband in VT | Permalink
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Oy. I guess I'm gonna have to renew my rant against my own freaking customers. I already lambasted Verizon--mebbe I'll just search and replace with 'BellSouth'. Pleasepleaseplease, SBC, don't make me come after you next...
Posted by: NTodd | Dec 6, 2005 6:42:15 PM
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