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>I'm not sure tax dollars should be used to maintain fiber optic lines to residences. Do you feel the same way about sewer lines? Water pipes? How about road

• blueblisters 6y ago
  Not really. A better comparison would be electric cable where the company who provides you power is also responsible for maintaining the infrastructure. It's more practical to do it this way, otherwise every time your lights went out, you would have two parties who would be potentially responsible for fixing it.
  • nobody9999 6y ago
    >Not really. A better comparison would be electric cable where the company who provides you power is also responsible for maintaining the infrastructure. It's more practical to do it this way, otherwise every time your lights went out, you would have two parties who would be potentially responsible for fixing it. Where I live, the company that delivers the power is responsible for maintaining the delivery infrastructure, while those who provide the power are (or can be) completely separate entities. As such, it seems to me that even your example would argue for municipal broadband.