> Are municipal ISPs legal? Most certainly. Tbaytel, Bruce Telecom, and CityWest are municipally owned. Sasktel, provincially. There are also a number of coope

> Are municipal ISPs legal? Most certainly. Tbaytel, Bruce Telecom, and CityWest are municipally owned. Sasktel, provincially. There are also a number of cooperatives, which has proven to be a nice model as well. My family farm in Canada is connected with fibre, offering gigabit service, by one of those co-ops. Canada's rural internet landscape is half decent as the big players never established themselves there. > Do they pull the same trick of begging for government money to build rural infrastructure and then never build anything? Yes, there are some known instances of that.