SO...in the years of 1996-1998 I was working for a small city owned electric utility in FL. I was hired on to be a part of their ISP efforts which included a F

SO...in the years of 1996-1998 I was working for a small city owned electric utility in FL. I was hired on to be a part of their ISP efforts which included a FTTH project. Within a few months of joining them, Bellsouth got some lobbyists to sponsor legislation that would ban any political subdivision of the state (like, say, a city-owned electric utility) from providing any telecommunications service. The law was passed. So our 10mbps symmetric ethernet service to the home was capped at just 24 homes or so. Ain't democracy grand? @Loughla: get in touch with Milo Medin at Google Fiber. I met him in 1998 at a conference when he was working for @Home. He's now the chief brain behind Google Fiber. I'm sure he has some good advice for you and he was always an approachable guy when I knew him. He might have some suggestions on how to proceed.