Dude, we&#x27;re looking at a deal where a city gave away MILLIONs of dollars worth of fiber cable away to a private company for $1.<p>The city of Provo spent roughly $39 MILLION on building out their local, municipal fiber. And then they gave the network away to Google.<p>&gt; You&#x27;ll see that they&#x27;re all bog-standard.<p>There is nothing standard about giving away MILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of fiber away for $1.<p>The only thing &quot;standard&quot; about this, is that Google, a for-profit company, accepted the deal. Obviously, because gaining a huge amount of infrastructure, debt-free for a single dollar is massively beneficial to a company with loads of capital, and allows Google to expand into the ISP space.<p>&gt; Another thing. Remember the fact that iProvo was sold to another private company five years before Veracity and Provo decided to let Google Fiber manage, maintain, and upgrade iProvo. [6] In your opinion, how does this situation [7] compare to a city changing the specialist company to whom they contract out power plant operation and maintenance?<p>Simple. Broadweave actually paid more than $1 for the deal. Much less fishy. In fact, Broadweave (later Veracity) paid a total of $40 Million on the deal.<p>Still fishy of course: Broadweave&#x27;s debt was owned by the city of Provo, which is how Provo got into the mess in 2013 where they are still paying for the fiber they gave away to Google for $1. As far as I can tell, the city is just incompetent and grossly underestimates the value of their home-built network.