Hey FCC: Stop Ignoring Municipal Broadband!

[Commentary] The Federal Communications Commission's workshop on broadband deployment featured speakers from across the spectrum of broadband providers, except for one notable omission: they didn't have a single representative from a municipal broadband deployer. To give them some credit they did include a couple of non-traditional providers who started as public non-profits and eventually evolved into private for-profit operations. But in terms of having representation from a city that built it's own broadband network, they had nothing. To leave them out of the deployment discussion entirely seems irresponsible.