RE: [Nolug] BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet

Doesn't that mean they are a competitor of yours as well? You are
looking at it from a different perspective, which I understand - but
here is how most look at it ....

- hurricane hits
- bell south tries to do a good thing (presumably innocent at first,
but..)
- NO opens wifi (which totally freaking rox0rz for 99.99% of those who
are affected by it)
- bell south cries foul, take ball home

New Orleans right now is in no place to be a fair, competitive market.
The area will require YEARS of gov't subsidies and special treatment to
get back on its feat. It is going to be a unfair market place for years
to come, but at the end of the day this will be good. It goes way
beyond just internet - NO unwilling has become a test bed for many
programs and efforts that have only been talk until now. If even a
fraction of these new ways of thinking work out, we will be better off.
You may not agree (understandably), but I think John Q. Public would.

Brett

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 11:48:56 -0600, "John Souvestre" <johns@sstar.com>
said:
> Hi Brett.
>
> I don't agree. :-) The City decided to position themselves as a
> competitor
> to BellSouth and other ISP's (me included). I don't see anything fair
> about a
> tax subsidized monopoly as a competitor.
>
> John
>
> John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@nolug.org [mailto:owner-nolug@nolug.org] On Behalf Of
> Brett
> D. Estrade
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:49 AM
> To: nolug@nolug.org
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet
>
> They're not a competitor of mine so I'll say it - fsck'em, they can kiss
> my lily white ass. There are enough offers of help that this will make
> no impact, plus it makes them look like whining babies. If they don't
> want to compete in NO, then that just opens up the door for true
> competition and is better for us in the long run.
>
> Brett
>
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:09:14 -0600, "Charles Jouglard" <pcguy1@cox.net>
> said:
> > Since it is very unprofessional to make comments about competitors I am
> > only
> > providing the link.
> >
> > To add to the press BellSouth is receiving this week...
> >
> >
> > "Angry BellSouth Withdrew Donation, New Orleans Says"
> >
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/02/AR200512020185
> 3.
> > html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 08:00:54 -0600, Chris Johnston wrote:
> >
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/203229&from=rss
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > &#65533;
> > Cheers,
> > Charles
> >
> >
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