[GRLUG] Community based internet

[Bob Kline]

Thanks for the pointer. There's far more
out there than I realized.  The town in
question is Lafayette, LA.  The system is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber>Below a manhole in the item you sent
it mentions that 133 cities and town have
there own broadband systems.  That
could mean almost anything, since
broadband apparently means 200Kbps
and above to many people.

It shows it can be done.  And it shows
that the big players have not been too
successful in stopping it.  Verizon and
AT&T did go to court to stop Lafayette,
but in a perhaps surprise ruling, the
judge sided with the town.

    -- Bob


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Joel Freiberg <jefrat72 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is just a continuation of a thread that was passed on about a
> month ago about local internet, though I forget which town that was
> in, Louisiana somewhere?  Anyway.....
>
> Iowa, how about ya.
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/133-us-cities-now-run-their-own-broadband-networks.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
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