[anigbrowl]

Not without people screaming about the danger of government meddling in industrial policy and wrangling over it for the better part of a decade.

[gizmo686]

That's capitalist democracy. You could have a democracy where the government does control (or has significant influence over) industry.

[loceng]

And not allow the government to be the scapegoat for corporate-driven changes and rules.

[kalleboo]

In the US maybe, but I could easily see something like this happening in Scandinavia. Sweden already has a lot of provider-neutral municipal fiber.