Paying For A National Broadband Plan

How will we pay for the goals set in the National Broadband Plan? We need to acknowledge that private providers alone may not have the capacity to invest that much money on their own over the next few years. They've already sunk a lot of money into their existing networks, and for the most part are only looking to incrementally upgrade. Plus they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to be prudent in what they do invest in, which is why rural areas are often left behind. That's why we need to make sure the conversation about how to pay for an ambitious national broadband plan focuses more on answering the question of how do we make broadband a more attractive investment for private capital sources, regardless of who's doing the deployment.