I have a lot of sympathy for this sort of argument, but I'm starting to think it might be wrong in this case. Like it or not, the project of wiring a city for b

I have a lot of sympathy for this sort of argument, but I'm starting to think it might be wrong in this case. Like it or not, the project of wiring a city for broadband is going to involve a fuckton of waiting for permission from the city government. There is no "just go do it without government interference" option -- you have to deal with the existing underground architecture, get licenses to dig, get licenses to install hardware, etc. I think at the end of the day it might be simpler to just let the city do the job than to create some huge beaurocratic interface between the city and an ISP.