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You might enjoy listening to this podcast episode, on a town that tried to do exactly that: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865908114/small-america-vs-big-inter

• pas 6y ago
  tl;dr: The North Carolina legislature passed a law in 2011 prohibiting municipal telecommunication services, but the city of Wilson was able to carve out an exemption, because Greenlight (owned by Wilson) was already providing such services. Then the FCC tried to intervene, but Federal courts, on appeal it found that the 1996 Telecommunications Act is not giving this specific power to the FCC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlight_(Internet_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlight_(Internet_service)
• wool_gather 6y ago
  A similar play in Tennessee: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/tennessee-kills-muni-broadband-expansion-bill-after-att-opposition/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/tennessee-kills-... Attempts to expand broadband service run by municipalities forcefully opposed by AT&T and Comcast.