Meanwhile, back in the states, Intel, Tropos, and Pronto donated equipment to make a city-wide wireless network in New Orleans. Here’s an interesting map showing current status of Bellsouth’s telephone and DSL networks in New Orleans. Looks like a wireless network is easier to deploy quickly than DSL….

Louisiana has a law against local authorities providing fast Internet access, but New Orleans can get around it for the moment because the city is still on emergency status.

Nagin, who was Cox Cable’s top executive in New Orleans before his election in 2002, said the city system would be "just one of several options" residents would have to get Internet service.
New Orleans Gets Free Cloud dailywireless.org Posted on Monday, 2005 November 28 @ 16:13:07 PST

Hm, maybe Mayor Nagin understands this technology better than schoolbuses.

-jsq