Years After Ugly Fight Against Cox, Lafayette Offers 1 Gbps Lafayette Louisiana's LUS Fiber faced very sleazy efforts by Cox and BellSouth years ago when trying to launch; efforts that went so far as the two companies hiring push pollsters to try and tell locals taxpayer money would be used to fund pornography. Some pollsters even tried to tell locals that if they approved the municipal broadband project, the government would restrict their television watching to just a few days a week. Years later and a look at LUS Fiber's new quote: “There’s very few entities in the country that can offer this amount of speed,” says Huval. The decision to roll out the new plan came after a recent test run in which LUS opened up full-speed to check if the system could handle the higher demand. It did, says Huval. "Our system has grown and matured to a point where we can make these types of offers,” says Huval, adding that eventually a similar deal for a Gig-per-second will be offered to commercial customers. Cox recently announced that they'll Years later and a look at LUS Fiber's new pricing and speed page highlights why Cox and BellSouth (now AT&T) were so nervous. LUS Fiber now says the company is offering symmetrical 1 Gbps service for $70, symmetrical 80 Mbps for $55, symmetrical 20 Mbps for $34, or symmetrical 3 Mbps for $20:Cox recently announced that they'll begin to deploy 1 Gbps to all of the company's customers sometime around 2016. Despite the sour prognostications by those who didn't want the added competition, LUS Fiber recently noted the ISP has been cash positive for some time. Oddly, not a dime of taxpayer money went to porn, and the government never did restrict what TV programs locals were allowed to watch.







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ISurfTooMuch

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Tuscaloosa, AL 5 recommendations ISurfTooMuch Member Here's an idea Hey Karl, here's an idea that I think would be interesting. Do a follow-up feature story on this whole ugly fight. Go find the polling companies that worked for Cox and BellSouth and ask for interviews where you ask them what evidence they had that taxpayer money would have gone to fund porn and that the government would have restricted TV watching. And then track down the two people that were set up to file a lawsuit against LUS and who then never showed up in court. Find out who they are and why they sued. Hold all these people's feet to the fire until they either talk or slam the door (physical or virtual) in your face. Find out what really happened behind the scenes.



You'll likely never get anything to talk to you, but that would be telling in and of itself. See what you can dig up. No matter how the story ends up, it could be a powerful tool that can be used against such sleazy tactics in the future. Skippy25

join:2000-09-13

Hazelwood, MO 3 recommendations Skippy25 Member But wait...



Yet.....

Coming on the heels of last year's announcement that since 2011, LUS Fiber has been cash-flow positive  meaning revenues exceed costs  Huval says the utility is projecting even more growth this year. Last year, LUS Fiber was cash-flow positive by a little more than $4 million, but based on current projections, Huval says that number is expected to hit the $8.9 million mark by October.



Is that what all the naysayers here claim? Munis will never work because they ALL fail and the taxpayers are caught holding the bag of large bills and years of debt to pay off at their expense. They are simply a suck on local economies and should be banned and outlawed.Yet.....Is that what all the naysayers here claim?