Wired West should check out ECFiber, a fiber network built by a consortium of towns in central Vermont by using private investment when the public market disappeared in 2008. See: http://www.ecfiber.net/history/ It’s been a slow build, but here’s where they are: “As of January 2017, we have built 326 miles of cable, connected well over 1,600 subscribers, and plan to complete 250 more miles in 2017.”