said by RadioDoc:If we are really serious about it we'd just give tax credits to those who own private networks, and shift it all over to some benevolent public-controlled overseer? Really?
Where has that ever really worked for anything? Maybe if you have central control and no private ownership there might be a chance you'd get close to the goal, but then what? Where does the money come from? Do you lease it all back to the original companies? How do you keep the government from fucking it up like they do everything else they control? We'll end up with another Amtrak.
The horse has been out of the barn so long it's died and its corpse been eaten by jackals. The time to do this was in 1981...I'm afraid there is no going back now.
You are 100% correct. The reality is that wired networks (at least copper) are going to to be slowly decommissioned over the next 50 to 100 years until they are left only in obscure locations. As much as everyone hates WIMAX, it or its successors (or variants, etc), 
