Not the point I was making. If a city provides any service: water, sewer, broadband, from property taxes, its going to be really really hard for any company to

Not the point I was making. If a city provides any service: water, sewer, broadband, from property taxes, its going to be really really hard for any company to compete with that. So you can make the case for municipal broadband, but don't pretend that private ISPs are going to compete with it.