One of the big difficulties in installing broadband is dealing with the right of way necessary to get to everyone's house. Municipalities have a very strong adv

One of the big difficulties in installing broadband is dealing with the right of way necessary to get to everyone's house. Municipalities have a very strong advantage over a private company in their ability to get their wires to houses. I wonder if cities could inspire more competition in the ISP market by making it easier for a new company to wire up a town. Another model would be for the city to provide fiber to each house as part of standard infrastructure that any ISP can provide data over. That way ISPs would be competing on price and service--not on who happens to own the wires running through your neighborhood.