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.
Nifty: a “fibre optics” ad from Dutch cable provider KPN
(Yes, I know it is in English, still…I can only say that the Dutch are a literate people. And yes, it is from their phone company. I can only say that the Dutch are a literate people.)
[3/12/09–I misidentified Dutch phone company KPN as the Dutch cable company in my initial post. Relying on my faulty memory…paint me chagrined.]
now if people around here will only buy into it… đ