Louisiana city blazes high-speed Web trail – USATODAY.com - More than 800 miles of fiber-optic cable hum invisibly underground in Lafayette, a city of 120,000, delivering Internet speeds of up to 100 megabytes per second — rare for even major cities. The cutting-edge connectivity in the heart of Cajun country is due not to a private telecom giant but to a public municipal service that offers higher speeds and often lower rates than the private sector.

'More than 150 local governments across the country have built or are planning to build cyber networks'

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-01/broadband-telecom-lafayette/52920278/1

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