“I’m on the side of competition,”
well PROVE IT then !!
how does a Municipally run ISP handle COMPETITION? they shut them down
Generally there is no competition there unless the phone company provides DSL
So far as broadband goes there is but one provider, the cable company. If the cable company is greedy there is no recourse but to use the monoply. The cities have no ability to set rates or mitigate poor service.
Then there is comcast..... Comcast is essentially the propaganda arm of the democrat party.
In nearby Bristol Virginia, to solve all the complains about the cable provider, the city went into the business. I don’t know details but am not aware of major complaints.
When the monoply cable providers get too uppity, they should be punished or put down
I know, I know too much government etc. But if no other cable provider is willing to come on a competitors turf, perhaps the city did the right thing. They have a poor service high cost monopolist and no willing competitor replaced by a municipal utility and it works
BTW, we ( and Bristol VA) have electricity provided by a similar municipal utility selling/distributing electricity provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority so it is not all developed from scratch, there is an experience factor with local corporate utility boards etc.