pnh102
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BellSouth might as well sign its own death warrant. By refusing to stand its ground against one socialist broadband upstart, it has literally opened the floodgates to any other municipality that wants to get into the telecom racket.
Its particularly shameful that any government would seriously toy with the idea of killing 1300 jobs simply to pursue something that will be nothing more than a colossal waste of money. I guess jobs must be very easy to come by in Lafayette, LA can afford to kill 1300 of them. Its too bad such an irresponsible action on the part of one level of government cannot be stopped by another.
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Octopussy2
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Batavia, IL
| You cannot honestly believe that BellSouth isn't just BS-ing the people of Lafayette by saying they will "take their ball and go home" and close a call center because they fear the muni competition of LUS. IT IS A SCARE TACTIC! And frankly, I think it is disgusting of Oliver from BellSouth to use such threatening language to try and intimidate others from competing - something they have a right to do.
If BellSouth wants to kill THEIR 1,300 jobs that is THEIR own fault. Don't blame it on anyone but BellSouth.
So the higher tax ploy didn't work, the "let us vote" ploy didn't work, now we are at the "BellSouth is going to kill 1,300 of their own jobs for no good reason and try to make it look like the fault of LUS" part. I certainly hope people see through the "man behind the curtain" smoke and mirrors scare tactics. The harder a Bell and Cable Co. fight it simply means the muni is onto something good and something that they will never provide.
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JTRockville
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If BellSouth kills the jobs, it'll kill the deal they made. Lafayette can then take back the $10 million, the land, and the building they traded for the jobs (a deal totalling $18 million) and offer it to someone else.
Lafayette should easily be able to find another taker. |
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