To follow up with your water analogy: we don't expect the water company to deliver 400x the water to our homes than we did 20 years ago, but that's exactly what we expect of our broadband providers. It's hard to imagine a scenario where a municipal (or monopoly) broadband service will upgrade its network as fast as we expect. Competition is the answer.
My city spent just over $3b last year, meanwhile Time Warner Cable spent roughly $3b on capital expenses in the entire United States.
This is about as apples to oranges as it gets, but if your city spent $3B just maintaining water and sewer, and time warner spent $3B over the entire country then TW is winning in my book.
My city spent just over $3b last year, meanwhile Time Warner Cable spent roughly $3b on capital expenses in the entire United States.
This is about as apples to oranges as it gets, but if your city spent $3B just maintaining water and sewer, and time warner spent $3B over the entire country then TW is winning in my book.