Municipal ISPs are completely legal, but it gets complicated. Where I live (rural area), a private ISP covers the county with fixed wireless and competes with

Municipal ISPs are completely legal, but it gets complicated. Where I live (rural area), a private ISP covers the county with fixed wireless and competes with a national ISP that does the same but with satellite for infill where there is no tower coverage. The various levels of government announced plans for massive funding to provide "high speed" internet everywhere, and Bell manages to be the only qualifier for our county, taking the entire subsidy to the tune of millions of dollars. They still do not provide fixed wireless service to this day but they do continue to provide backbone and peering to the other ISPs. Eventually, and unreliably.