This has been a fascinating discussion :) While we don't quite qualify as a small city, we do have quite a dispersion of coverage across our residence halls and general campus. There is an ongoing RFP process to build out our own CATV distribution (or more generally, to avoid the resident CATV provider charge monopoly). Initial competitors included incumbent cable (largely RF coax), new providers (also RF coax), and content-only providers (either assuming we do distribution over our fiber, or add another distribution component), to IPTV solutions (using existing network). IPTV requires a "very co-operative" multicast distribution, which we currently do not have (not exclusive vendor gear end-to-end); it needs to be designed that way from the beginning as opposed to bolted onto the end. RF CATV (or HFC distribution) requires some unique fiber plant... notably AFC terminations as opposed to the UPCs we have for data. And you have to consider one-way content provider network, versus two-way feedback (and the associated set-top box complications we're trying to avoid). And throw in the phone for the other "triple play" component, and you're generally talking PoE[+]. Even in a captive audience, the possibilities are challenging :) Jeff