&gt; I kinda want to go buy one of these markets Verizon has effectively abandoned, and put the whole industry to shame.<p>The Google Fiber experiment has proven that if you put the whole (US) industry to shame in an incredibly public way that gets covered multiple times by just about every news outlet in the country... that it will have no effect at all on the entrenched players (except perhaps causing them to lower their prices in the areas you serve in order, I suppose, to harm your income).