Municipal broadband exists because the lack of competition in the private sector has lead to "lack of innovation" and "special interests". The muni broadband pr

Municipal broadband exists because the lack of competition in the private sector has lead to "lack of innovation" and "special interests". The muni broadband projects fill in these gaps since multi-hundred billion dollar companies can't seem to roll out service at greater than 10MBps. Muni broadband is competition to a monopoly, not a monopoly itself.