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Sounds like a perfect situation for coops.

As long as they break-even then it's a success.

[IggleSniggle]

I’ve heard of communities doing this very thing, or creating city-owned ISPs, and then getting shut down as illegal due to “unfair competition” (the argument being that the government has unfair advantages vs a private company)

[zajio1am]

City-owned ISPs are unfair competition, but coops or non-gov non-profit organizations are perfectly valid approach.