Wall Street Journal
The $53,000 Connection: The High Cost of High-Speed Internet for Everyone
The cost of connecting Nebraska’s Winnebago Tribe reservation with fiber-optic cable could average $53,000 for each household and workplace connected. That amount exceeds the assessed value of some of the homes getting hookups, property records show.
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Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Thu, 08/31/2023 - 11:09Train Wi-Fi Can Be Terrible. Operators Are Looking High and Low for Solutions. (Wall Street Journal)
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Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 08/30/2023 - 12:55Private Equity Borrows Billions to Bring You Broadband Internet
Wall Street is churning out billions of dollars in complex bonds to bankroll construction of broadband fiber-optic networks, part of a nationwide push to widen high-speed internet access. Telecommunications companies have already sold more than triple the number of so-called fiber bonds they borrowed in all of 2022.