Provo Utah was a muni system. I offered $4m when they got tired of it. Instead they sold to Google for $2. As in two dollars.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 12, 2021, at 5:15 PM, Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
