The idea on paper I think was to encourage building out the infrastructure to areas that would not otherwise be profitable enough to build to by increasing the

The idea on paper I think was to encourage building out the infrastructure to areas that would not otherwise be profitable enough to build to by increasing the number of available customers in a poor neighborhood. Personally I think it's a tough spot. Infrastructure projects like ISP connections are best done once to a residence like power or water/sewer which is usually a city or heavily regulated natural monopoly. Ideally you could have the city run fiber to residences in the metro area and companies could compete for the service across those wires if we wanted to cling to markets like some places do with various billing providers for electrical power.