This resource discusses the city of Westminster, Maryland's three-layer, private-partnership model for its fiber-to-the-home network, and why the city chose this model. It reveals the fundamental advantage of this model is that the allocation of expenses (and risk) are to the levels at which they are best handled. This multilayer model aligns the interests of all parties and provides a scalable blueprint for other local government to implement a communitywide broadband network in a financially sustainable manner.
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