North Louisiana is a thinly populated and generally a poor area. High cost investment for advanced services is not in the cards. Unless the government dedicates that access to high speed internet in a constitutional right for all Americans.
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North Louisiana is a thinly populated and generally a poor area. High cost investment for advanced services is not in the cards. Unless the government dedicates that access to high speed internet in a constitutional right for all Americans.
Under the telecommunications ACT of 1992? bellsouth/ATT was supposed to already have it in the ground due to the tax/fees that were added to landlines commercial and residential in the state of LA -Originally Posted by olddog75
So yes it's a BIG issue that the Public Service Commission (Foster Campbell and his cronies) refuse to enforce or regulate because they are attached to AT&T and Entergy's teat
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
I disagree that anything associated with the infrastructure is "high cost" anymore unless specifically designed to be.
And the FCC is already taking steps to make internet a utility.
Thanks, Has there been an accounting of the fund of those fees and taxes? Also, do you think the the taxes and fees collected in your parish would be enough to pay for the cost of high speed internet in your parish?
I know what we are pulling in with 911 fees annually in the parish and I believe these are higher and have been collected for a longer period of time - so yes I believe it would have been more than adequate $$$ to ring the run the state hwy system in the parish and into the populated areas
Everyone KNOWS there are less than 1 million from state line to state line in North LA - but south Ark has the same population restraints and their cell coverage and IP coverage is 100x better than North La's - so there is NO need to re-invent the wheel just copy cat their models
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
Thanks again, appears to be another example of why Louisiana is in the condition it is in. There is no accountability.
We were at the Police Jury Association of Louisiana annual meeting in Shreveport last year and the topic of the conversation got around to what we should do for the better benefit of North LA as a whole - I told them we should divide off into thirds along the I-20 corridor and petition for annexation into Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi - some laughed and said I was crazy - I told them it would mean better roads, schools, health care for our populace and more funding for our colleges along the corridor - and that I was DEAD serious...
The room got very silent to say the least
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
Id vote for that.
Just check out most of the amendments we have to vote on. They either get the state into where they don't belong, or set fiscal procedures to keep (the legislature) from having to earn their keep.
(sorry, back to week 10 sched.)
They probably thought it was blasphemy cause they would be separated from their beloved tigger college. A place that already thinks that North Louisiana has already been annexed by Tx, Ms and Ark.
This is a national issue for rural areas. Some of you guys who live in the city just don't care about it.
Good old Memorial Gym
Help me understand, I thought that was one of the main purposes of the Federal and State Universal Service Fee that Algore forced on us. The amount of money they steal from us in the form of these taxes is staggering. Just the SUSF can be from 10 to 25% and the FUSF is somewhere around 15%, too lazy to look them up. Only Michigan does not have a SUSF.
You are correct and no accountability has been held at the federal or state level to ensure it was done
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
I'd say this thread has been hijacked.
And if I start a new thread that actually focuses on Week 10 games and scores, please don't merge into this mess of a thread. Thanks.
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