Is fiber the solution for public broadband build-outs?
Is fiber the solution for public broadband build-outs?
Now that the heady notion of free Wi-Fi is disappearing from municipal agendas, the merits of publicly owned fiber networks are bubbling back onto them. St. Paul, Minnesota, is taking steps to put fiber in its future. But Utah, where two ambitious fiber projects are already underway, believers in muni broadband are fighting to preserve the massive investment the state has already made.
