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The OPEC hyperbole is a poke in the eye - red meat for the NY Times (and the Free Pressers, and the MoveOn.Orgs and the Soros-wannabes, etc.).
Not only that -- some of these bastions of socialism publicly finance tracts of asphalt for collective use by their citizens. Outrageous! Why not just let people drive where they want and let the market sort it out!?
Seriously: it's long past time for us to start treating the pipes that carry our bits in the same manner we treat the pipes that carry our water. There are reasons to doubt the viability of muni wifi as currently conceived, but the CLEC model is hardly without its problems.
Specifically, while I feel local governments should be free to experiment with public investment strategies for broadband expansion, I have little faith in their success in this fast-moving area. Broadband is not water, sewage, roads or garbage collection. It is a rapidly evolving technology that I believe can and should be provided by private vendors precisely because the market is going to be upended ever few years and we don't want taxpayers on the line for the tab when things don't pan out.
Finally, the OPEC analogy just doesn't hold. There is no government-enforced cartel here and it's outrageous to make that connection.
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