Verizon: No DSL for You, Now Do us a Favor... → Do it the way we use to in Fidonet

Use the phone companies own fiber to compete directly with their services.

Neighborhoods get together, lease a T1 line at about $400/month, lay out about $3000 in initial costs [the same as about a $125 installation charge and $20/month usage fee for 25 users... more users, those costs go down] the paying members of the neighborhood have a wireless "N" class network service with full T1 speeds [1.5 Mbps down stream and UP].

That should get the Bells [including Verizon's] attention.