>so your choices will be crappy state service Says who? There are co-ops all across the country that run fiber to the home and provide a far superior service

>so your choices will be crappy state service Says who? There are co-ops all across the country that run fiber to the home and provide a far superior service than 99% of the ISPs out there today. At the end of the day, the only REAL solution is for government to own the last mile. Run single-mode fiber to every household in the US, run that back to a centralized pop and allow ISPs to attach to that pop to provide service. The cost of last-mile is no longer a barrier to entry for new ISPs, people will end up with more choice and better service, and we can stop having ridiculous fights over access to utility poles that never should've had more than one line strung in the first place. Given that the government could run fiber when building new paved roads and it wouldn't even be a rounding error... it seem ludicrous to me we aren't already doing this.