How Should a Rural Fiber Fund Work?

[Commentary] Daily has been running a series on the idea of a rural fiber fund to accelerate the fastest Internet connections in the most underserved parts of America. How big does the fund need to be? $30 billion could be enough to fully fund wiring all of rural America (all US cities with populations below 20,000). How should the government support be structured? The government doesn't need to write a big check, it needs to step in and guarantee these risky, long-term infrastructure investments. Daily sees the Department of Agriculture.