Is there a good writeup of the fiasco somewhere?
On July 12, 2021 7:26:30 PM CDT, Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote: >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
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