The the glacial pace at which San Francisco bureaucracy operates, this isn't going to go anywhere. Soviet-era style "5-year plans" are a good indication of that

The the glacial pace at which San Francisco bureaucracy operates, this isn't going to go anywhere. Soviet-era style "5-year plans" are a good indication of that. It took David Chiu a long time to get the "dig once and lay dark fiber" thing going; but it's still not implemented yet. Someone reached out to Ed Lee about fiber in the city. His response was "we're getting wifi!". Fiber in a dense city like SF is a no-brainer. Heck, it's the "capital" of Silicon Valley! But unfortunately the city bureaucracy is incredibly uninformed on tech issues. Efforts like MonkeyBrains, Sonic, etc. are not the answer, I'm sorry to say. You're just replacing one monopoly with another. Who controls the Sonic fiber? Sonic does. So now I've replaced Comcast with Sonic; it's still the same situation. The solution, I feel, is to provide fiber as an infrastructure; and let outfits like MonkeyBrains, Sonic, ATT, Comcast, etc. provide the connectivity to the Internet and offer added services. So the City lays the fiber and maintains it for a small fee; but to actually get on the Internet you need to buy service from a provider.