This is how you do internet. Public wire, competitive gateways into the backbone run by private competitors. Hell, the majority of US phone / cable wire was al

This is how you do internet. Public wire, competitive gateways into the backbone run by private competitors. Hell, the majority of US phone / cable wire was already paid by taxpayers over the course of a hundred years, local governments just did short term gains for long term screwing by selling them off to big telecos.