Mark Zuckerberg walks into Town Hall and offers to fully fund and operate a FTTP network in Portsmouth. Could he do it on his own? Rewind back to early 1990s, did cable companies just pull up in their utility trucks and just start installing coaxial cable? A private company would not be able to conduct an installation unless there was a minimum level of cooperation from the host municipality.
Regardless of the overall FTTP (fungible) solution (private/public-private/public/NGO coordinated/co-op) the minimum level of support required from a municipality is as follows: