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So at CEBIT I attended a keynote by the mayor of a small south German town, and I can't stop thinking about it. This'll be long
See, most of Germany outside the large cities has real shitty Internet. The gov't has started an initiative to fix that, and the town got some amount of funding. But, while the large ISPs agreed to lay down some optical fiber, they kept missing deadlines and pushing back the schedule and (as the mayor put it) the local businesses would not stop calling him to complain.
However, the town actually owns most of its infrastructure (water pipes, cables etc.) thru a company. So they just had that company put down the cables and set up a contract with a smaller ISP. This turned out to have all kinds of side benefits; the local businesses do better now, but the city also has an additional income stream now. They bought new equipment for the local schools, set up a company to administrate said equipment, offer free public WLAN...
There might be a lesson here guys