New Orleans Wi-Fi Scares BellSouth
Karl Bode writes in Broadband Reports BellSouth Wants New Orleans Network Shut Down.
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After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans CIO Greg Meffert got downtown businesses back online by opening the city’s 512kbps wireless mesh network — originally deployed to link surveillance cameras — to anyone who needed it – for free. Now, according to Red Herring, BellSouth is lobbying to get the network shut down. The network is technically illegal, under a BellSouth lobbied law, created to thwart municipal broadband deployment of networks faster than 128kbps.
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