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But when you look at what actually happens after a city decides to become an internet provider, the idea falls apart. City governments should not build and operate their own broadband networks, because the costs are too high and the risks land on the taxpayers.\n\nThe first problem is money. Laying fiber across an entire city costs an enormous amount up front, and Roussel found that construction costs in the towns he studied ran well past what the councils had originally approved (Roussel). These were not small differences either, they were the kind of gaps that force a council to go back and borrow a second time.\n\nWhen a project goes over budget the city cannot simply walk away from it. The bonds are already sold, and residents end up paying them back for twenty or thirty years whether or not the network ever ends up working the way it was supposed to.\n\nAlso, a city is not a technology company. Running a network means customer service, billing, outage repairs, and equipment upgrades every few years, and none of that is anything a public works department has done before.\n\nPetrov argues that the strongest predictor of failure in the systems he examined was not funding at all but the absence of trained staff, which shows that the money is really a secondary issue here (Petrov).\n\nSupporters of municipal broadband point out that private companies have skipped over rural areas and lower income neighborhoods for decades, and that a city is the only entity with a reason to build there. In some places that is genuinely true, and nobody should pretend otherwise.\n\nBut the existence of a problem does not automatically make the city the right party to solve it. Grants or subsidies to the providers who are already operating can reach those same houses without the city taking on all of the risk by itself. The money still gets spent, it just gets spent by someone who already knows how to run the equipment.\n\nAnother thing is that technology keeps changing. A city that borrows heavily for fiber in one decade may discover that wireless or satellite options have gotten much cheaper before the bonds are even halfway paid off.\n\nAs Roussel showed, the towns whose networks failed did not have a single person on staff who had ever run a network before. Still, the real obstacle in the end is cost. Staff can be hired, and training is not that expensive compared to construction, so the hiring problem is fixable in a way that a hundred million dollars of debt is not.\n\nFor all of these reasons cities should stay out of the broadband business. If a city really wants to help its residents get online there are other approaches available, such as negotiating better terms with the providers already in town, or funding assistance programs for households that cannot afford the service that is already available to them, which is something a number of towns have begun looking at as a way of"},"anomalies":[],"verification":{"source_event_count":228,"range_hash":"5e55e10a6ea61508929986ded3b9b26895fa1461711b1cb9f2e5552ea33935c6","how_to_verify":"karani verify --artifact <rendered.json> --log <events.jsonl> re-folds the log and compares the range hash. A packet whose hash does not match its log has diverged from the record."},"what_this_packet_does_not_contain":"A grade, a score, a rank, or any assessment of quality. No such field exists on any record in this system."}