Private equity and broadband internet expansion | The Broadband Community
Telecom companies are churning out fiber-backed bonds to private equity firms in an effort to finance new fiber-optic networks. Altogether, they’ve issued $4 billion in…
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Creating a new kind of socially progressive corporation
In this joint interview with Freada Kapor Klein, Mitch Kapor talks about his goal to create a new kind of socially progressive corporation when he cof…
Co-Ops Can Look to Counties for BEAD Match Requirement
Darren Farnan, chief operating officer of rural electric co-op United Fiber, said counties can help co-ops with the matching piece required by the BEAD program…
Liquefying Infrastructure Demo: Justin Kilpatrick, Althea
If this topic about emerging technologies is of interest to you, please request an invitation to our private group, Infrastructure Finance, where we discuss how…
What can we learn from the Cooperative Utopia Fiber?
Too many legislators seem to think that we do not have choices other than the incumbent ISP. Because of this, we do have many concerns that the bulk o…
Funding the commons and closing the innovation chasm
How are we going to fund the steps we need to take to promote #DigitalEquity and build the circular economy around Community Owned Internet Networks?…