No, not really.<p>The right way to solve the problem is how Chattanooga, TN and other such places have solved it: either install fiber optics and maintain and bill them as a utility, or open the <i>existing</i> fiber lines and maintain&#x2F;bill them as a utility. [0]<p>This solution is <i>so</i> good that incumbent telcos have successfully lobbied to make it illegal in <i>oh</i> so many places.<p>A second, decent solution is how -IIRC- either the CR or Romaina did it... string up a communally-owned <i>wired</i> network from building to building, expanding the <i>wired</i> network until you get enough &quot;customers&quot; that you can pool the cash (and have the influence) to get a good link to the Internet.<p>[0] This was more-or-less what the telcos were supposed to do back in the 1990s with the tax breaks and other incentives they were given. As you can see, they failed to live up to their promises.