"Having helped shepherd municipal broadband initiatives along, I'm sorry to say that your requirements are a hill too far for almost all consumers. They don't c

"Having helped shepherd municipal broadband initiatives along, I'm sorry to say that your requirements are a hill too far for almost all consumers. They don't care about the level of provider selection you want, they simply want The Internet (Netflix, Youtube, Google Gmail, et al) at the lowest possible cost (and reliable to boot)." I feel this is really only because there's been no real competition in this space at all. There's been one phone company, one cable company, and that was it. Compared to other markets where there is some semblance of competition, and you see the comparison shopping behavior. I don't really see why it couldn't translate to internet access, given time.