{"id":3681,"date":"2005-09-11T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/fiber-and-voip-in-new-orleans.html"},"modified":"2005-09-11T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T21:16:11","slug":"fiber-and-voip-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/fiber-and-voip-in-new-orleans.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiber And VoIP In New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">USA Today does a really good job with their technology stories. They really understand what is happening in telecom and other areas of technology and their reporters deserve a lot of credit. I recently added USA Today to my RSS reader and was blown away with the recent story I read titled <span class=\"inside-head1\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/techpolicy\/2005-09-11-katrina-communications-edge_x.htm?csp=34\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\">Rebuilt New Orleans could be cutting edge<\/span><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"inside-head1\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">The general idea is that <place w:st=\"on\"><city w:st=\"on\">New Orleans<\/city><\/place> can be a model city with fiber and IP and VoIP to every home.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is always fun to scoop a big newspaper. I wrote the same exact thing almost 2 weeks ago in a blog entry titled <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/katrinas-silver-lining.html\">Katrina\u2019s Silver Lining<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t even get called as a source or quoted. Well if you read my post, it wasn\u2019t really my idea anyway but it is still fun to get a scoop and also to be almost two weeks ahead of the next person.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today does a really good job with their technology stories. They really understand what is happening in telecom and other areas of technology and their reporters deserve a lot of credit. I recently added USA Today to my RSS reader and was blown away with the recent story I read titled Rebuilt New Orleans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,118,191,219],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}