You're doing a pretty good job parroting what the incumbent carriers say, but have you actually studied it? UTOPIA in Utah is a good example of a major municip

You're doing a pretty good job parroting what the incumbent carriers say, but have you actually studied it? UTOPIA in Utah is a good example of a major municipal fiber project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Telecommunication_Open_Infrastructure_Agency https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Telecommunication_Open_... It's a competitive open access network - customers can pick which ISP they connect to. The services offered range from affordable ($80/mo gigabit) to... way beyond what most residential customers in the US can get ($280/mo for 10gbps service). https://xmission.com/utopia https://xmission.com/utopia Competition, it turns out, is awesome but sharing last-mile fiber resources is awesome too so that you can have competition without having to pay for multiple fiber links per house. (And from my experience in Pittsburgh - Comcast's pricing is abysmal. Verizon FiOS is very reasonable but still more expensive with worse limits than Utopia. My almost-gigabit home service on FiOS is $90/month; my backup 20mbps Comcast link is $50/month.)