We have a largely suburban town, 20K population when we moved in 15 years ago, primarily single-family dwellings. The commercial ISPs wouldn&#x27;t even consider providing broadband. Community network plans were made and implemented, then the commercial ISPs spoke up and protested.  We had a community cable and broadband internet network built from scratch, fully deployed and running for a couple of years before the incumbent cable company with a pre-existing network (Comcast) started to provide broadband internet service.<p>The community network remains self-funded and profitable, has repeatedly used annual profits to upgrade bandwidth, and remains significantly cheaper than the commercial cable and DSL broadband providers.