A discussion from September 2020 about how municipalities are partnering with private entities to deploy broadband infrastructure. The panelists tackle the topic from several angles, including a nonprofit that built a fiber network and sold it to a private company, providers looking for communities in which to build, and Facebook leasing its excess fiber to nonprofits and municipalities.
The National Broadband Resource Hub is made possible through the generous support of the Ford Foundation and Schmidt Futures. The site is administered by the Broadband Equity Partnership.