Looks like a corporate initiative. Puget Sound Business Journal said the city would have owned the network but the company said not.[1] And the company and the

Looks like a corporate initiative. Puget Sound Business Journal said the city would have owned the network but the company said not.[1] And the company and the city both said the city wouldn't invest money.[1][2] So probably the PSBJ writer misunderstood the dark fiber lease. And did it ever launch? It would be strange to call it uncompetitive when the real problem was it never existed because the company couldn't raise funding. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130215072656/http://gigabitseattle.com/faqs/technical-faqs/#faq-165 https://web.archive.org/web/20130215072656/http://gigabitsea... [2] http://www.seattle.gov/tech/initiatives/broadband/studies-and-history http://www.seattle.gov/tech/initiatives/broadband/studies-an...