This is a partial reconstruction of the Lafayette Pro Fiber blog that John St. Julien ran for many years, chronicling the grassroots fight for and establishment of LUS Fiber in Louisiana. Many of the links have gone bad and images are missing, but most of the ideas are here and we believe well worth preserving. Site archived by the Community Broadband Networks program of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
Some of the articles that have disappeared are still available via the WayBack Machine.
I’ve said that New Orleans is outraged.
Here’s a link to a voice of that outrage who expresses it thusly:
And in the end, what do we care if Billy’s pissed? Bellsouth moved its corporate headquarters to Atlanta years ago; if they can’t compete in this market with Cox and everybody else, let ’em go the way of PanAm…
BellSouth is burning its bridges in South Louisiana. They’re engaging in the kind of behavior that offers them no line of retreat and is never forgotten. Does anyone in Atlanta care?
