Comment by db48x

Regulation is not the free market. Of course companies are going to lobby for more regulations if they think that they can get away with it. It only works because the legislators are idiots who think that free markets _must_ be regulated. It is easy to hoodwink them into passing idiotic regulations. They boast about the accomplishment in their press releases as if they had saved the country.

Municipal fiber is not outlawed here in Oregon, so there are quite a few municipal networks here. But they are not expanding as fast as even a single ISP like Ziply Fiber. None of them have expanded beyond their small town to serve unincorporated areas near by. All of them are funded more by taxes than by subscribers.