- "Maybe the incumbent network providers--the Verizons, Comcasts, AT&Ts--can be made to compete; threatening to seize their stagnating networks via eminent domain is just one creative idea to get them to do this."
I was just talking with Becca Vargo Daggett and Richard MacKinnon here at the MuniWireless Conference in Santa Clara [1] about this very issue and was stunned to see it in the June 26, 2006 issue of the Weekly Standard [2]. With broadband penetration rates in the United States continuing to stagnate, and many communities being un(der)served by incumbent providers, this is a solution whose time may be coming quickly.
More info at Broadband Reports [3].