No reason a state couldn't decide to. New Zealand (approximately equal to Oregon) decided to do it in 2011 and finished the planned fibre rollout in about a dec

No reason a state couldn't decide to. New Zealand (approximately equal to Oregon) decided to do it in 2011 and finished the planned fibre rollout in about a decade. This was a public-private partnership (funded by government but not rolled-out nor owned by our government). The existing cable in my city is now unused (not sure how their incentives were structured, but I couldn't sign up to cable 4 years ago even though house was already wired for it) I originally thought it was a dumb idea - state funding for netflix - however covid showed the value of the fibre connections. https://sp.chorus.co.nz/stories/ultra-fast-broadband-ufb-ufb22-roll-out https://sp.chorus.co.nz/stories/ultra-fast-broadband-ufb-ufb... The second phase of the UFB rollout, called UFB2, means that 85% of New Zealanders will have fibre access by the end of 2022