Ryland Sherman
The Era of the Broadband Public-Private Partnership
A remarkable wave of public-private collaboration in broadband is underway—a wave that began in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and will likely reach a crest in the next few years as many tens of billions of dollars of public and private capital are invested in next-generation broadband. COVID-19 demonstrated to American policymakers the absolute need for plentiful connectivity and the crises faced by those who don’t have it—and simultaneously demonstrated to private investors the economic potential of best-in-class, future-proof broadband.
It is the era of the broadband public-private partnership.
States Organize to Facilitate and Fund Local Broadband Efforts
Over the past decade, a range of states have developed and executed strategies to methodically chip away at rural broadband challenges.
The best practices and commonalities among many of the best state rural broadband funding program
America’s Broadband Moment: Facilitating Competition in Apartment Buildings
Thirty percent of all Americans live in multi-tenant environments (“MTEs”) like apartment buildings. Their annual income tends to be only about 54% of median homeowner income, so they are at greater risk of not being able to afford broadband. When apartment owners can profit by restricting tenants’ broadband options and reducing competition, it adds to our nation’s broadband affordability challenges.