See, the Comcast's and AT&T of the world are right that governments shouldn't be ISP's, that should be left to the private sector. I want a choice of ISP's offering different services, not a single monopoly. In this case the technology can provide that, so it should be available.
It has been my experience that the incumbents largely give small cities the finger until a muni steps in, and makes a profitable go of it. Then they are all about legislation to protect them from the unfairness of it all. The large incumbents are basically a duopoly as it is, and general are not offering anything innovative until they are forced to. Running an ISP is hard, and most munis have no experience in it. Then only reason to do it, is because the incumbents refuse to provide service. I don't think munis running networks is any sort of threat to free enterprise. I see them more analogous to rural electric cooperatives that provided electric service when incumbents refused to. Legislating that option away, just lets the duopolies serve the dense urban areas and ignore the less dense areas. Elle Plato