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"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote in
news:j31o1n$i3c$1@news.albasani.net: 

> Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>>Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>>>dye@ppp-66-73-204-85.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net says...
> 
>>>>I think WOW cable outbid AT&T in Park Ridge, so no Uverse.
> 
>>>Why can't WOW and AT&T service Park Ridge?
> 
>>Park Ridge isn't grant AT&T rights to put in all the uverse boxes.
> 
> Since when does AT&T need municipal rights? They've been relying on
> their existing easements thus far. Park Ridge tends not to have
> underground utilities, so maybe that gives the municipality the right
> to refuse the VLADs.
> 
>>thought there was some state law that trumped that though, buncha
>>hubbub about that a year or two ago.
> 
> That state law allowed AT&T to pick and choose neighborhoods in a
> municipality to serve.

According to a village official in my town, A state law was passed allowing 
AT&T to put those VLADs wherever they wanted, in a nutshell. This keeps 
various towns from having a say where they go. I dunno what's going on in 
Park Ridge, but even Hinsdale can't tell them where to put them. They're 
not pretty when they're on your parkway. 

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