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This can be deployed quite quickly if mandated as a requirement for any ISP to operate (ISPs usually need some license from local municipalities or something of the sort). They'll implement it in an instant. Otherwise, they'll just sit doing nothing, and it remains a chicken and egg problem.


No, a municipality can require nothing beyond a business license to sell services in their jurisdiction.


That is clearly false. Building codes, workplace safety codes, zoning rules, noise ordinances, even aesthetic ordinances exist in most non-rural places.




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