Case Studies in Public-Private Partnership Driving Broadband Deployment

Many small communities across the country struggle to bring advanced broadband to their residents. What they lack in size, they often make up with diversity of their economies, populations, geography, and technology providers. Public-private partnerships (PPP) can help local government and businesses pool their resources and technical expertise to deliver cutting-edge services to citizens. Recently, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s BroadbandUSA program and the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology hosted the Virginia Broadband Summit – Partnerships for Connecting the Commonwealth to learn from smaller Virginia communities how they used PPPs to identify models that other communities can study to bring broadband to their areas.