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The "free wireless" concept is being fought in several other cities as well. The telcoms are trying to protect their business plans. As I understand it they are even fighting free wireless in places where they haven't considered providing the service yet. I guess they do not want the government providing services in which they can make a profit on. If this concept catches on and major cities start providing the service for free it will cut them out of a lot of business.
For publicity reasons BellSouth should probably have resisted fighting NOLA on this.
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