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News Gazette Op-Ed by Professor Fuhr: Government-Owned Broadband Needs Scrutiny

This piece by Dr. Joseph Fuhr was published in the News Gazette and is available on their website.

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ACI Expert Writes on the Problems with Government Broadband

Professor Joseph P. Fuhr Jr., a Senior Fellow at ACI, wrote an article on the problems with government operated broadband networks.  The article was published in the Journal of James Madison Institute...

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Broadband at Government Speeds: ACI in Real Clear Policy

Have you ever waited in line at a municipal government office and wondered how much faster private firms are in transacting business with the public?  Well, the line for Internet services may be...

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ACI Files Comments on FCC Petition

The FCC is considering a petition filed by two municipal-run broadband networks that asked the FCC to preempt state laws that limit the expansion of government-owed networks.  Today, ACI filed its...

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Easy to Build But Prone to Serious Losses

With enough IT engineering talent, equipment, and access to an Internet network access point or other interconnection agreements, any community can build a government broadband network.  With a...

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Municipal Broadband Failure

For years now, many city and local governments have gotten into the municipal broadband game—spending taxpayer dollars to create broadband networks that hope to compete with private providers. The goal...

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FORBES: Government Broadband Bad for Consumers

On September 21st, President Barack Obama’s Broadband Opportunity Council released its first report. The council outlined four main recommendations for promoting broadband, but the council’s report was...

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Government failure as a Broadband Service Provider

The empirical evidence shows that the public provision of private goods, such as broadband services, often leads to: unprofitable operations that push the recovery of losses to taxpayers and to other...

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Real Clear Policy: Government-Owned Internet Can’t Be Counted on to Help the...

On March 21st, the Maine Legislature announced the approval of $15 million in broadband Internet funding for rural and underserved areas. The intention is to expand broadband infrastructure, which will...

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Inside Sources: Study Meant to Promote Municipally Owned Broadband Actually...

With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the persistent “digital divide” between low-income and rural Americans and the rest of the country, Congress is poised to allocate significant funding for...

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Infrastructure Plan Is Bad for Broadband

While on a visit to the rust belt city of Pittsburgh, President Joe Biden released his American Jobs Plan, claiming it would “create millions of good jobs, rebuild our country’s infrastructure, and...

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Podcast: The Empirical Evidence Behind Municipal Broadband – with Sarah Oh

The role of local government-owned and operated broadband networks in the United States has been the subject of considerable debate for a while now. More recently, the Biden administration has unveiled...

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Inside Sources: Jobs Plan Depends on Too Many Faulty Assumptions

While the AJP has noble aspirations, the bill is being justified completely on faulty assumptions. If enacted, this legislation would render fewer consumer benefits than claimed, while crowding out...

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Municipal Networks Are Not the Future of Broadband

There are over 900 municipal broadband networks across the U.S.  The justification for these government-owned networks is to offer lower prices than private-sector competition and to offer widespread...

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ACI Study Finds Government-Owned Broadband Networks Will Not Bridge the...

Today, the American Consumer Institute (ACI) released a new study examining the dangers of government-owned broadband networks at a time when some states and municipalities are flush with stimulus...

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Broadband Infrastructure Money at Risk of Creating More GON’s

As part of the massive new infrastructure bill proposed in November, Congress has promised to allocate $65 billion to broadband expansion and improvement. The vast majority of this amount, $42.45...

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Real Clear Policy: Government Broadband is a Bad Deal for America

The history of municipal broadband networks shows they are simply not viable alternatives to private providers, with many collapsing after just a few years of operation. These networks lose money and...

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