The incumbents never sleep, and they rarely stop opposing competition, especially if the competition is a local or regional government broadband initiative. The Community Networks Web site has an excellent article on all the problems with a recently released report by the ITIF (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation).
The article samples a small handful (twenty) of an estimate of nearly 500 community and local/regional government broadband projects and uses some rather weak statistics to "prove" community broadband is a bad idea.
What is disappointing about the continual assault on competitive broadband networks is that the big incumbents have been the beneficiaries of billions of tax dollars via the Universal Service Fund, RDOF grants, and other tax-supported subsidies, but have not delivered affordable, high performance broadband to many homes and businesses in the U.S.
Some of the best work is being done by smaller telephone coops and companies, who seem to understand taking care of their customers is just good business.