USATODAY.com – Rebuilt New Orleans could be cutting edge: “Ugly as she was, Katrina may have given BellSouth a rare opportunity: the chance to turn one of the oldest cities in the USA into a showcase for 21st-century communications.
Talk of how New Orleans could look some day may seem fanciful considering it may take years to make the city livable again.
Assuming New Orleans rises again, a city rebuilt from the ground up could boast the best voice, data and video communications infrastructure in the nation, says Bill Smith, BellSouth’s chief technology officer.”