How Regional ISPs are Bridging the Digital Divide Through Innovation

Regional internet service providers (ISPs) in the US have a clear role to play in closing the digital divide – here are four key business model factors that they can consider to enable network build and services more quickly:

1. Develop partnerships beyond network deployments that can help establish new value chains and ecosystems to deliver new verticalized solutions, build internal expertise, and shape industry standards.
2. Consider using a combination of different wireless technologies and spectrum to reduce the total cost of ownership and deploy at greater speeds.
3. Ensure that the core network, as well as access, can scale to meet additional capacity requirements, understanding the IP capabilities needed in the core network to meet increasing subscriber and device count.
4. Prioritize security investments in core network planning to withstand the changes in the threat landscape, including basic cybersecurity hygiene and upgraded DDoS protection.