how to encourage other cities to do the same? can colorado guide the rest of the cities and states to through similar initiatives?
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb17-042
That particular bill ultimately failed, but it was on the right track.
Probably the #1 problem is the ignorance of how bad the telecom monopoly is in the US, that there even are alternatives, and that this is the problem domain government needs to approach in the same way they approach electric access or roads.
amusingly, boulder county, which passed this same thing, tried for years to get out of maintaining my neighborhood's roads. (and our electric service is privately provided.)