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>Municipal broadband, power, roads, schools, post, housing, and healthcare? It's long overdue,

Yeah, everything was great under the state owned telco monopolies. Let's get back to that!

In the case of municipal broadband it mostly comes from communities that suffer form poor/no investment from the big players and is the only recourse for decent internet. It usually is faster and cheaper than existing solutions. There's clearly market failure here and players abusing their local monopolies to refrain from investing / provide decent service. The state of telco in the US is pretty shocking, even in places like NY state.

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