the town I live in bought the small local cable company and it's awesome. first thing they did was upgrade the infrastructure. I get 6ms pings on wireless and with 60/10 mbps. The office I work at has a dedicated business line with time warner and i can't get a ping below 30ms. Speeds are never really as fast either. Not to mention the town owned isp has poured a ton of money into local communities. Twc some how got a legal injunction preventing them from running new lines outside the city tho, assholes.