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« Is there a pro-muni group in Lafayette?  
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yac898

join:2002-12-06
Stony Plain, AB
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Re: Extortion

if i understand this correctly, a GIANT telco, which had ALL of its underlying plant paid for by taxpayers, is scared of competition from a government owned consumer option? HAHAHAHAHAHA.....


IGGY
No Guru Just Here To Help
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL

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I say install the fiber. Do you know how many call centers will be knocking on their door after they get this network up and running? One good example of this was posted here in the news the other day. »If You Build it, Google Comes


moe fuel to the fire

@optonline.net

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That's OK, there's always sprint/nextel, t-mobile, and others that will bring jobs to the state.. so that's a bad bluff to call any Red state on...
GO FIBER GO!!!

Telcos are gonna learn sooner or later (like a certain Koren) that throwing a tantrum will get you nowhere fast, with or without nuclear weapons.


merge or sellout

@bellsouth.net
Can you say extortion??
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