ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
| Re: Sounds like local pols just like spending money ... said by TKJunkMail  :... and having control over some patronage jobs for friends and relatives. Now they are going to expand their fiefdom by adding WiFi in to the mix. You'll recall that local residents overwhelmingly approved municipal broadband. If they want it, then no one who doesn't live there has any business saying anything. The services a local government provides is the business of the local population, not any outside corporation looking to protect their profits.
If Cox and AT&T had invested in offering the services people wanted, they likely could have avoided this mess. Instead, they threatened residents with the loss of local jobs, launched misleading ad campaigns, filed lawsuits, and even got a couple of stooges to sue on their behalf--stooges who, I might add, didn't even have the guts to appear in court or any other public venue to explain themselves. Yeah, I really feel sorry for any company who would employ tactics like these. My heart bleeds when I think of all the money they're going to lose. |
