This is an old tale , and I ’m lamentable we missed it . Lafayette , Louisiana is attempt to install and maintain their own character - optic internet to serve their town of 160,000 citizenry . BellSouth , it seems , believes this is unseasonable . In a claim like to the old “ non - standard telephone set will destroy the meshwork ” which led to years of clunky Bell telephone set rented like cable box , BellSouth is quiet shutting down the Lafayette project and other projects like it .
The poorly landline mesh are feeling the cellular pinch and , in a very telling paragraph , we learn :
The regional Bell companionship have made much of their billion - dollar plan to run broadband networks across the USA . Yet they ’re also quietly endeavor to rear hurdles that would make it hard or expensive for anyone to compete with them .
Besides municipalities like Lafayette , the Bells are go after their phone rivals , Internet carriers and major metro areas anyone with an stake in building service that might compete with the Bells .
Thanks to company like BellSouth , we pay $ 59 a month for 4 Mbps while Japan gets 30 Mbps in boxes of breakfast cereal . Ultimately , I ’d care to see free - to - gloomy toll receiving set meshwork sprout up to take the place of fiber and other landlines .
Bells dig out in to dominate high - hurrying Internet realm[USAToday viaTheInquirer ]
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