I know that a lot of this can be confusing. In some ways the biggest problem we face with technology in America is a lack of technological education. For example, what about all of the stuff you're hearing about wireless vs. fiber. Some say, "just wait for wireless" but the truth is that wireless and fiber are complimentary technologies, not competing ones. You need fiber to do wireless. The more fiber you have, the better everything else will be. If that fiber is also public, you will also have a lot more choice. A good analogy lies in the circulatory system. Fiber is like the arteries and wireless like the capillaries. When someone says "Wireless Fiber" what do they mean. Well to me it's the default installation method for all modern internet connections. Wireless-Fiber might as well be like, Gasoline-Car. You should be hooking almost all devices up to fiber. So let's not make a marketing term out of a basic connection type, but they do. Still, they usually mean 5G, which is nothing like a direct fiber connection to your home, business, etc. Yes, wireless is convenient. Yes 5G is probably hooked up to some fiber, but in the case of the private companies, usually not enough. That's one of the big reasons why 4G never really delivered on its promises. 4G should have been, and still can be, amazing but most of us never experienced the true potential of 4G LTE from our providers. You see, a lot of the problems didn't exist on the front end, like when you connected to the tower, they existed on the backed end because there were too many users with too much data for the inadequate amount of fiber that your private providers hooked up to the cell towers to move around. Hence, you ended up with bottlenecks. That's why we still need public fiber and lots of it. So that local net-neutral companies and co-ops can provide you with as many choices as possible and so you get what you paid for in the first place. Make no mistake, there is no shortcut to good infrastructure. You either have it or you don't. You either have the resources you need for your town to compete or you do not. Again, it all starts with lots of conduit and lots of fiber. To try and clear up the confusion I found the following collection of fact sheets on the community broadband networks website. I and many others are always happy to answer any questions you may have. That's the beauty of Open Access Public Networks, and the Open Source world of computing. We want you to know how everything works, and want to help you learn. As an aside, the City of Spokane is now working on locating its fiber resources and looking into setting up an Open Access network too. If we wait too much longer, the entire state will end up doing this before Bellingham.