Re: How can this "micro trenching" possibly work?
"But fibre provision is a civil engineering job, and it makes a lot of sense for Munis to run it as a natural monopoly. "
Yes, it's not like each water or power company runs their own lines or pipes. You put stuff in at one end of the network and your customer pays to take stuff out at the other end. But I see Trump used the word "socialist" as an insult yesterday in relation to another Dem announcing a Presidential run. It seems anything which might "take" from business and to be built/run by any level of government is "socialism", which appears to be something with horns, hooves and a forked tail for many Americans. I really can't see a problem with a city, town or state running a fibre network to every home and offering access to any ISP who wants to serve customers on that network. Of course, that means they'd have to be good at their jobs and offer add-ons to "beat" the competition. And that means actual work and maybe lower profits than they'd get in a monopoly infrastructure deal.
It's probably just as well the road network is "socialist" and you don't have to subscribe to multiple services to drive around the country on the various private road networks.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
