Municipal Broadband
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Eastern Tennessee: Where Broadband Goes Bust
Government-owned broadband networks have failed across the country, but public utilities in Tennessee want to build them anyway.
August 15, 2023
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Bernie's $150 Billion Broadband Boondoggle
Government-owned broadband networks often overbuild existing networks and waste taxpayer dollars.
January 27, 2020
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USVI Should Avoid Repeating Municipal Broadband Failures
A U.S. Virgin Islands’ (USVI) public utility company is positioning itself to create a municipal broadband network that could come at the expense of hundreds of millions of duplicative taxpayer dollars under the guise of recovery from hurricanes...
May 21, 2019