Wasn't the big Provo, Ut network passed on to google for $1? I am sure there is a ton to that story but that is the first one to come to mind.
-----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Monday, July 12, 2021 5:15 PM To: Animal Farm <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Public broadband failures Does anyone know a compiled list of community broadband projects that have received federal funds then failed or got sold off? One of the counties in our service area is in the process of 'thinking about building a fiber network that we(they) will run ourselves' We're looking for examples we can give them where the government built then network, but was then unable to continue to run it, or it didn't play out the way they expected. Here in Illinois, another county just recently transferred their BTOP funded Fiber network to a private entity because they were convinced they didn't want to run it anymore (there's more to the story, but that's the long and short from what I gather) There's gotta be stories like this all over, has there been a list compiled somewhere? -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
