I feel that any company that finds this story as a threat should really just keep in mind the USPS. Think about the various companies that compete against the USPS today and how they forced this government agency to reform its business strategies in order to compete with these companies but only after many years of its birth. The USPS was set up initially for a fast reliable and efficient means of transporting physical mail. This situation is similar. This local government, seeing that the current state of isp's is dismal, decided that the market failed them so they had to act. I feel that since the market can't provide an inexpensive, reliable, and fast service nationally the government should put in place a system that is like the USPS but for delivering packets not packages. Fiber is the future and any company getting in the way of that is only hurting our national interest.
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I feel that any company that finds this story as a threat should really just keep in mind the USPS. Think about the various companies that compete against the USPS today and how they forced this government agency to reform its business strategies in order to compete with these companies but only after many years of its birth. The USPS was set up initially for a fast reliable and efficient means of transporting physical mail. This situation is similar. This local government, seeing that the current state of isp's is dismal, decided that the market failed them so they had to act. I feel that since the market can't provide an inexpensive, reliable, and fast service nationally the government should put in place a system that is like the USPS but for delivering packets not packages. Fiber is the future and any company getting in the way of that is only hurting our national interest.