Comment Re:Key word here is "pledged" (Score 1) 226
Which is pretty much how municipal fiber ought to work. 1) City forms wholly owned non-profit 2) City underwrites bonds for fiber optic network
You clearly understand how a muni system could/shoulfd be set up in order to actually work (be viable down the line).
My wife happens to be a counsel for a group of cable/telecoms in California, and she got a call from a USF professor who is on SF's Blue Ribbon Panel that has simply voted on the "idea." This is worlds away from anything approaching a done deal, for one, and secondly, the nature of the "Panel" member's questions show that they have not even gotten as far thinking about Step 1 in your helpful list of the method for setting a utility, like this "proposed" one, up.
I'm rather amazed to see slashdot folks looking at this municipal vaporware as something that has been, or will be put in place. Pipe dreams, people, move along now...