Thomas Magee

With tens of billions of dollars being made available for rural broadband infrastructure projects, electric utilities – including rural electric cooperatives, publicly owned power companies, and investor-owned utilities – stand ready to play a crucial role in bringing broadband to unserved and underserved areas of the US Easement issues are a significant concern for many of them. Utilities have easement agreements with private property owners that allow the utility to install poles and run wires across a strip of property.