The Colorado city I live in recently passed (76-24) its own SB 152 measure to at least explore to what use the city's already-existing dark fiber might be put to (http://goo.gl/qN6Ji8). I don't expect to see any concrete results any time soon, but anything that makes telecomm providers squawk about the virtues of "competition" is always worth at least supporting for the laugh factor alone.
I don't credit local government with any magic powers to provide better service than Comcast or AT&T, but at least I'm involved in electing them, and the legislative tactics used to try to block cities from utilizing their own assets makes me more than open to seeing what has them so worried.
Big Cable may have felled Seattle’s mayor, but it couldn’t stop this Colo. project
With a wildly successful ballot initiative last night, advocates for a city-run fiber optic network have effectively broken the cable industry’s grasp on the Internet market.
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