Small Towns Are The Low Hanging Fruit Of Reform

There’s a minor revolution going on in Colorado where small towns are taking back their right to run their own broadband networks. Community Broadband Networks has the story right here. It an amazing story of a complete and total reversal for the dummies at Comcast and Centurylink.

The short summary is this: legacy incumbent ISPs, namely, Comcast and Centurylink, didn’t invest in infrastructure in many small towns and counties in Colorado. Residents therein pleaded with incumbent ISPs to provide better connectivity — higher speeds with better…