I once lived in a city with a community run fiber network. It was pretty damn amazing. They still have great rates for what you get: http://www.sfcn.org/sfcn/in

I once lived in a city with a community run fiber network. It was pretty damn amazing. They still have great rates for what you get: http://www.sfcn.org/sfcn/internet/ http://www.sfcn.org/sfcn/internet/ I paid about how much the "Plus" plan cost, without TV, just for 3Mps down/1Mps up in the next two places I lived. It really does spoil you when you've had a proper ISP compared with the TWC/Comcast/Cox monopolies that run in other locales. Edit: and note, this was a tiny (less than 30k residents) at the time I had it. Incredible value for the service. I'm sure there's lots of happy customers there still.