Community owned FTTH networks - is this a real competitor for telecoms?

Question

More and more news like this:

"Sandy is a Gigabit City thanks to SandyNet Fiber , the fiber-to-the-home network operated by the City of Sandy's municipally owned utility. SandyNet is in the process of extending its four-year-old fiber network to pass all 4,000 of the community's homes, making symmetrical broadband offerings of both 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s available to all 10,000 city residents.

As with many smaller communities in the US, the muni utility is stepping in where commercial broadband providers haven't -- in Sandy's case, for more than 13 years."

 

Is this happening only in USA or all over the world?

Answer 1

yes i some reasons it a real competitor for telecoms because of high influence support for getting their projects done at once.