said by signmeuptoo :

Ah. I just saw the thing about AT&T using politics to try and force the state government's hand. Sucks.

OT:

This is why I think we need a national county owned fiber to the home initiative. The local counties or parishes contract to have the lines run and then pay contractors to run them, but don't allow any "telco" or "CableCo" to get involved in the line maintenance. Instead, any and all providers may pay to have the right to hook into the fiber COs and by using an ID system, instantaneously provide or block various servies via the fiber.

I think it is time to break the monopolies.