An interview with Coalition for Local Internet Choice president Jim Baller about the strategies used to navigate the myriad legal and regulatory barriers involved with broadband expansion projects. Baller discusses what localities need to know to benefit from federal funding programs, engage in public-private partnerships, and avoid costly and disruptive mistakes in the early stages.

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This conversation centers on how public-private partnerships allow municipalities to combine their resources with grant money to deploy broadband during the Covid-19 pandemic. The panelists come from the public and private sectors and discuss their approaches, lessons learned, and predictions.

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This conversation focuses on how municipalities are working with private partners to deploy broadband infrastructure in the era of Covid-19. Panelists include representatives from Google Fiber, TING, C-Spire, and Fresno, California, discussing successful broadband partnerships.

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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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A blog post about how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act encourages entities to work together, including via public-private partnerships (P3). In particular, the act’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program gives a broad definition to the term “Subgrantee” and says that P3s cannot be excluded from funding.

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This action plan produced by the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition supports joint procurement, aggregated purchasing, and coordinated planning as strategies that can significantly reduce the costs of providing high-quality broadband to anchor institutions.

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