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Re:Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for munici... by foldr on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @12:09PM (#18665605)
>If the government isn't competent to hire a competent company

In a small town, there may just not be anyone with the necessary knowledge and expertise. You can't vote for someone who doesn't exist.

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Re:Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for munici... by bryanlarsen on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @12:22PM (#18665728)
In theory this should be simple:

1. find a similar town that has good municipal internet 2. ask them who did it for them 3. hire those people

If everybody knows they are ignorant, you're probably OK. The big problem is in the towns where people think they have the expertise but don't.

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Re:Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for munici... by magduf on Thursday December 13, 2018 @10:20AM (#18672859)
The town has a government comprised of the people from that town. If there isn't anyone in the town smart enough to run for government who, as the other responder pointed out simply needs to look for other towns that did something similar and ask them how they did it and who they contracted with, then obviously the town is full of utter morons, and by definition, the democracy in that town is working as designed: the people are getting what they deserve.
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