Baltimore is a basket case, so no surprise there. LA is probably too big for a single company. Normally when these tenders fail it is because the terms need to

Baltimore is a basket case, so no surprise there. LA is probably too big for a single company. Normally when these tenders fail it is because the terms need to be tweaked. Probably want you really want is simply to allow individual suburbs to set up their own little broadband networks, and have the city just run some central hub. But big city beauracrats are never keen on giving up control.