[Unknown Freeper]

Don't anybody tell them about high-speed. They'll be thrilled with the dial-up for at least another twenty years. lol.

As others have stated, why couldn't they just have put up the towers and given them cell phones? And another thing, it says the other residents of the state "will be paying" for this. Haven't people been getting taxed/charged for things like this for years?

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

BellSouth Corp. has spent $700,000 - or about $47,000 per phone - to extend about 30 miles of cable through thick forests to Mink, about 100 miles south of Shreveport. All phone customers in the state will cover the cost through a small monthly charge on their bills.
Hmm,sounds like communism there. Oh, wait, my state does the same thing...