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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Priorities People!This kind of bugs me. At Thanksgiving, I was talking to my Aunt Connie who was mentioning some of her cousins in Louisiana who were still without phone service. In fact, my Great Aunt Adelaide has a relative in Baton Rouge who works for the phone company, who is busting his hump to get phone service restored around the state. So here we have who knows how many people without basic phone service, but the City of New Orleans will be rolling out free Wi-Fi:
If companies wanted to donate equipment, why weren't they donating equipment for phone switches and lines? How about getting basic services to people before we start giving away free Wi-Fi (which I disagree with in general anyway). Yes, New Orleans was hit hard, but so was the entire state of Louisiana. Let's not forget that even more basic services aren't being provided to those people before we start dumping lavish goodies on one city.
I kind of agree, but how many people still living in New Orleans had basic phone and didn't own a cell phone. Cell phones are in the now and basic phone service is in the past. Also I think the Wi-Fi is intended for those people that have moved or come down there to help with the rebuilding of the city. Companies helping with the design and rebuild brought laptops to communicate and share information with their headquarters. Wi-Fi is a large helping step to the future of New Orleans.
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