Conexon primarily works with electric cooperatives, favoring a business model in which the local community owns the fiber network and Conexon operates it under a lease agreement."Challenging publicly funded overbuilds is becoming one of the most important tasks we do as a company," Cable One Assistant General Counsel Patrick Caron wrote in the email.Cable One lost that initial protest and was chided by the state broadband office for not providing evidence to back up its claims.The email was shared with Ars by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance's Community Broadband Networks Initiative, which works to expand locally owned broadband options and has been covering the East Carroll Parish saga.East Carroll Parish residents had scheduled a launch event with Chambers to begin signups for Internet service but scrapped the event when Cable One stepped in to block or at least delay the project."