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In the muni where I serve on our telecoms commission, we built (before I got there) a fiber network with the anticipation of potentially offering it to tenant ISPs. We wanted the network anyways for internal municipal needs. But the economics of building an ISP on top of that fiber in a place already served by AT&T and Comcast are not great: you target a certain amount of uptake to break even, and you're not going to get it.



The trick, which is hard to do, is to get AT&T and Comcast to realize that they can serve the customers better and faster over your network.

But that involves negotiation and there can be lots of finger-pointing, so companies don't like it.




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