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ISPs as publically owned Utilities
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All true. It would be easiest to lay in heart of the city where it is most dense to attract more customers per square mile.
Ideally, the utilities are made public and regulated by the public, but nationalizing or bringing it under state control is an even harder political sell.
I'll have to spread the word one way or another, which will be tough when so much is happening these days.
If it could be done, it would be in Seattle, given that the city owns its Utilities already.
Yeah hard sell in the US. Nationalising infra is the way forward. Laying new cable and ducts in a city is wildly expensive and not always possible due to the need for new ROWs.
We nationalised our telco infra here in Aus. Our conservatives tried to stop it and ended screwing up the deal and making it cost 30 to 60 billion more than it should have, but conservatives are mostly incompetent so kinda expected.