Props to Chelan County in WA for leading the charge on making this a viable model. The county P.U.D. owns and maintains the fiber infrastructure and sells it wholesale to ISPs. A friend of mine worked on that project and it has netted some concrete economic development wins. Wenatchee has been an ag center but is adding plenty of clean energy jobs and expanding into a Seattle alternative for tech (trying at least).

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