https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210401/06581646530/biden-broadband-plan-embraces-community-broadband-stark-contrast-to-trump.shtml > Some 750 US communities have built some kind of locally owned and operated broadband network, usually in response to broadband market failure. Data has repeatedly shown that these networks usually not only offer faster, better service than the private sector, they frequently prompt apathetic local monopolies to actually try harder. That's not to say community broadband is a panacea for all US markets, but it's certainly an important part of the puzzle that is fixing the US' mediocre and expensive broadband access problem. > Yet during the Trump era, community broadband was treated like some kind of infectious disease.