This is a great article on what I've been talking about for a while now that looks at it from a national level. All cities should be installing fiber or at least be establishing Dig Once Policies and installing publicly owned and accessible conduit by now. Most users have only one real choice in providers in the first place especially when you consider the speeds they're offered. For example, in my neighborhood CenturyLink offers UP TO 12 Mbps down and 7 Up, making Comcast the only real choice. The COB thinks that waiting for wireless will provide another option, but that has it's limitations too, which I've written about before. Even the FCC has admitted that large wireless deployments are only considered safe for adults, but that more studies need to be done in relation to its effects on children. This means that even fewer studies have been done on the effects that high yield wireless has on animals. Meaning that it might effect beneficial animals. We simply don't really know for sure but the current administration wants to roll out tons of it anyway? Here's a question, if it's so safe, why does the FCC require a minimum distance for structures from the dishes? This means that it is probably unsafe and will be even less safe when more dishes are put up and a cumulative effect occurs. No matter what way you look at it we're behind, paying too much, and rolling out tech without enough research. This will be true as long as we don't have public options. Public fiber has none of these problems. It is tried and true, safe and inexpensive. The city needs to stop trying to push its responsibilities off onto private companies that never are going to meet our needs. Note: There is some strong language in the article, but it is a good one. I would also encourage all of you to sign Google's or Change.org (s) many Pro Net-Neutrality arguments. Remember that since the loss of Net-Neutrality on May 18th your providers stealing bandwidth from you, and censoring the news, became legal again. Fortunately this move is being challenged in court. Still, if we had our own network we could set the rules on it and bypass much of the federal idiocy.