Why doesn’t the Bay Area have its own fiber internet service? Surely there’s enough talent and collective political influence here to get Comcast out of our own neighborhoods.
There's Sonic, but fiber rollout is expensive when you're not the incumbent. It doesn't help that AT&T rolled fiber out to parts of the Bay Area once Google announced their list of cities.
How many customers can a competitor get if they overbuild where AT&T has built fiber? Or where AT&T builds fiber in response.
Some small number of people understand that differences in peering and transit are a thing, but most of the population is going to be I already have fiber because AT&T was telling people VDSL is fiber.
It doesn't even cover the majority of SF, and SF is a small city. Same story with fiber everywhere. Google fiber also barely covered any territory in Atlanta, Austin, etc.
