Anyone else find it kind of convenient that the town ended up paying for the upgrade to the telephone poles, which was the prerequisite for private companies to expand into the town, and then all of a sudden ran out of steam, setting up the for-profit cable company to swoop in and reap the benefits?

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but the story dedicates so much time to the pre-planning, then all of a sudden trails off and glosses over the part where the initiative loses momentum and the private company ends up making money?