[oxide]

Someone in my local government is talking about making the internet a city utility, like the similarly city owned electricity. They got my vote this election cycle.

It seems that's the only way. Either your city competes with ISP's or ISP's have uncontested regional monopolies.

[smsm42]

I have hard time my city would be able to compete on either quality, price or customer service. Unless they do a cheap trick of charging me less upfront while subsidizing it on the back from my own property taxes. Maybe your city is different. But I don't see any advantage for them except that they have taxes to fall back on, which private company would have to stand on their own.