Local government broadband initiatives

Sharon E. Gillett, William Lehr and Carlos Osorio

Telecommunications Policy, vol. 28, issue 7-8, 537-558

Abstract: A growing number of communities across the United States are adopting policies to promote advanced telecommunication services, including broadband access. This paper offers a taxonomy for classifying these local government initiatives and provides preliminary empirical results for a sample of communities with municipal electric utilities1 that are in the forefront of efforts to deploy publicly owned communications infrastructure.

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