Certainly, you can make a case for cities providing broadband just as they provide trash, sewer, parks, libraries, etc.
What you can't do is pretend that private broadband companies would be competing with municipal broadband on equal footing.
What you can't do is pretend that private broadband companies would be competing with municipal broadband on equal footing.
The municipality provides the fiber network. All ISPs rent dark fiber, local loops, wavelengths or bitstream access on equal open access terms.
All on equal footing and equal terms.
What is a requirement is acknowledging the unequal footing.
I had assumed we all felt comfortable using “public/private” as a shortcut for all of these differences, but am learning that is not necessarily shared. In terms of moving the discussion forward, what were you hoping to achieve by pointing out some of these facts?
No they won’t. Public projects can be setup to require that they are revenue neutral or positive.