If U.S. transportation infrastructure emulated telecom policy, nation would be hodgepodge of toll roads with $1, $5, $10 and $20 fare lanes

Broadband Breakfast: Innovation and Contrarianism Define Bob Frankston, Champion of Broadband: In a recent Broadband Breakfast Live Online event, Frankston spoke about the role of municipal versus private broadband networks, arguing that private networks were unnecessary.

“All they do is help packets mosey along,” he said. “…They don’t guarantee that you’re going to get to your destination, they just provide an opportunity.”

Frankston's right. If transportation infrastructure emulated U.S. telecom policy, the nation would be a patchwork quilt of multiple privately owned toll roads with $1, $5, $10 and $20 fare lanes. Everyplace else would be served by unpaved roads and lanes with greedy trolls waiting under creaky wooden bridges for passing megabits. But let's waste time and resources and map this hodgepodge and 20 years later complain about all the shitty roads.