> Come back to this comment and in 10 years. We don’t have to. Municipal broadband initiatives have been around for more than 10 years. I’ll pick the first on

> Come back to this comment and in 10 years. We don’t have to. Municipal broadband initiatives have been around for more than 10 years. I’ll pick the first one I find on Google for a search of “2014 municipal broadband install”. The first result I got was Chattanooga, which was installing 1gig in 2014 (https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/chattanooga-gig-high-speed-internet-tech-boom https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/chattanooga-gi...). Not the fastest thing available, but certainly still quite respectable in 2024. Not many people with a gig today cry that it’s unusably slow. But, let’s just check on Chattanooga’s current speed. Apparently, in 2022 they were rolling out 25gig symmetric (https://epb.com/newsroom/epb-news/25-Gbps-internet-service-now-available-in-Chattanooga/ https://epb.com/newsroom/epb-news/25-Gbps-internet-service-n...). That’s light-years better than I can get in a suburb outside of Seattle. Dunno, municipal broadband seems like it can be just fine.