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.
No, this isn’t a post-Katrina version of the Mel Brooks movie/play/movie.
It is the actual time frame that beloved BellSouth is telling customers that it will be before they get dial tone again!
My brother who works in New Orleans told me last week that the agencies in his Canal Street office building have been told it would be March before they got phone service restored there.
The Times-Picayune reports they should consider themselves lucky!
