El Kabong,

Municipal provisioning of water, sewar, power and data services have a rich and effective history.

Almost all municipal run utilities perform far better than their market run counterparts.

The DMV slam is always used to indict government provisioning of services, but the key difference is that basically no one involved with the DMV transaction is served by the DMV in any meaningful way. It is a government 'service' that _may_ be needed for tracking/etc but neither the consumer nor DMV benefit.

That is not the case with municipally controlled utilities.