This may be helpful, but seems to miss the point. Municipalities are the ones who created the monopolies. The wired networks were conceived as utilities during

This may be helpful, but seems to miss the point. Municipalities are the ones who created the monopolies. The wired networks were conceived as utilities during their initial buildout, thus the monopoly. It takes years of lobbying and dealmaking for a new ISP to enter a municipality (see Google). That's unrelated to the state, in most cases.