Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step. People demonstrate for municipal internet outside City Hall in Portland, Oregon, January 14, 2018. Doug Seacat, founder of the Ridgway, Coloradoâbased IT consulting company Deeply Digital, got a call several years ago from one of his biggest clients. CenturyLink, the only internet service provider in the region, initially said it could p...