Public policy for fibre-to-the-home

Bruce L. Egan

Telecommunications Policy, 1990, vol. 14, issue 6, 457-460

Abstract: Integrated broadband networks are very costly, but many US industry analysts believe their introduction to the residential sector should be a national policy goal. Unfortunately current policy towards fibre-to-the-home is inherently unstable, and pits public and private needs against one another. A choice must be made between a public infrastructure approach, in which social costs and benefits are given greatest weight, and a private market paradigm, where communications networks develop according to market forces. This article examines some of the implications of each approach.

Date: 1990
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