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>But the Planet Money episode on this topic mentioned municipal broadband has more failure stories than success. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/865908114 http

• smnrchrds 5y ago
  They talk about a study. The relevant section starts here: > SAYRE: Christopher Yoo is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in technology and the Internet. And in his spreadsheet is essentially the story of what happened to other cities that tried to do what Wilson, N.C., was trying to do - build and run their own fiber-optic network. ... > cities tend to assume these fiber-optic networks will pay for themselves. They borrow millions and millions of dollars and are often screwed because one of a million things goes wrong. I believe the study is this one: https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/6611-report-municipal-fiber-in-the-united-states-an https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/6611-report-municipal-f...