This brief guide explains the reasons why fiber should be deployed nationwide. It explains the need for symmetrical speeds, the limitations of other broadband delivery technologies, the public and corporate desire for fiber, and the long-term economic benefits of fiber.

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The homepage for the Fiber Broadband Association Research Advisory program offers links to its studies, white papers, reports, and other resources. The program was created to help businesses understand the economic benefits of fiber broadband.

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A discussion from September 2020 about how municipalities are partnering with private entities to deploy broadband infrastructure. The panelists tackle the topic from several angles, including a nonprofit that built a fiber network and sold it to a private company, providers looking for communities in which to build, and Facebook leasing its excess fiber to nonprofits and municipalities.

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An economic study of the fiber infrastructure in Hamilton County, Tennessee, and the city of Chattanooga between 2011 and 2020. The study estimates that it added more than $2.6 billion to the local economy and created more than 9,500 jobs.

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This piece provides information about the U.S. Treasury’s guidance on how local governments would be allowed to use State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program to invest in broadband. The program distributed $350 billion to state and local governments to use for a wide variety of purposes.

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This report uses data from the FCC and the U.S. Census to explore the relationship between facilities-based competition and broadband adoption. The researchers found that competition between cable and fiber did not seem to bring the last group of unconnected people online.

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This article makes the case for Congress to redefine broadband as having a minimum speed of 100/100 Mbps. The authors argue that these and faster symmetrical speeds, reachable only by fiber deployment, are best suited to meet future consumer demands.

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