Depending on your expectation of the future: a) home-spun local municipal providers will provide service with a dedicated and civic-minded attitude; making it

Depending on your expectation of the future: a) home-spun local municipal providers will provide service with a dedicated and civic-minded attitude; making it hard for evil big-corps to rent-seek on an exploited mass of semi-urban dwellers b) tiny government monopolistic fiefdoms will be set up making it difficult for competitive economies of scale to do business that would make broadband truly available I'm of the mind that a) leads to b), but I can see the short-term allure if big-corps are themselves in league with big-government (regulatory agencies and "policy-makers") and you just want broadband now. You fight big-government with small government and small government with big-government. The downside is they both use your tax money to fight each other.