This strategic plan for New Mexico provides a framework for future efforts to eliminate the state's broadband gap, including a means of combatting the economic impact of Covid-19. Recommendations focus on using grant programs to expand rural broadband, prioritizing fiber-based rural solutions for longevity, prioritizing construction of new fiber and wireless networks, and including broadband considerations in all Covid-19 recovery planning.

This resource provides an actionable roadmap for improving access to affordable and reliable broadband services for businesses in support of economic development in New Mexico. It evaluates the current broadband infrastructure and identifies the range of State and local entities that would likely be involved in the implementation of new broadband facilities.

This report suggests policy strategies for consideration as the State of New Mexico seeks to maximize the investment environment for broadband. Additionally, the report includes suggested parameters for a state funding program and presents a selection of case studies of successful public-private partnership models for broadband.

This report describes a strategy for delivery of services over ubiquitous fiber‐to‐the‐premises (FTTP, or fiber connectivity to every home and business in San Francisco) that would be open, offering equal potential access to the network by multiple entities so as to enable and stimulate competition. The effort is guided by principles of equity; jobs, innovation, and growth; and local authority.

This testimony by Joanne Hovis, presented to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, argues that areas with high infrastructure costs per user fail to attract the private capital necessary to build networks. Further, it presents steps that state, local, and federal government can take to improve the economics of broadband deployment and incentivize investment.

This report examines the problem of access to high-speed internet and explores models of emerging public-private partnerships that can help solve the gaps in access. It makes a strong case that North Carolina must change its policy approaches to better encourage these partnerships, which are needed if major parts of the state are not going to be left behind economically.

CLIC lists summaries of laws in many states that have substantial barriers to public communications initiatives and public-private broadband partnerships. These measures include explicit prohibitions on telecommunications, cable, broadband, or combinations of these services. It argues restrictions that might appear benign can be discriminatory and prohibitory in practice.

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This Request for Proposal (RFP) from Garrett County, Maryland, seeks bids to identify one or more private partners interested in construction, deployment, operation and maintenance of Broadband Internet Network in key target areas of the county.

This document from the City of Westminster, Maryland, details a dark fiber lease and network operation agreement between itself and Ting Fiber Inc.

This Request for Proposal (RFP) from the City of Westminster seeks sealed bids from businesses who will lease their dark fiber FTTP network, light the network, and make available capacity to Internet Service Providers in an open- non discriminatory fashion. This RFP is only for the Operator role.

This Request for Information from the City of Westminster, Maryland seeks input from potential private partners who will provide network services to end-users in within the City utilizing the municipal fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network the city is considering constructing.

CLIC provides a compilation of documents about public-private partnerships (P3s) intended to add to the body of knowledge about broadband public-private partnerships. The documents are not necessarily endorsed by CLIC and may or may not reflect the views of the organization.

This resource from Chiefs for Change provides an overview of methods schools and wireless providers have used to provide connectivity to students during Covid-19, including providing wireless hotspots, creating partnerships with local service providers, and using CARES Act funding to support educational connectivity.

This resource discusses the city of Westminster, Maryland's three-layer, private-partnership model for its fiber-to-the-home network, and why the city chose this model. It reveals the fundamental advantage of this model is that the allocation of expenses (and risk) are to the levels at which they are best handled. This multilayer model aligns the interests of all parties and provides a scalable blueprint for other local government to implement a communitywide broadband network in a financially sustainable manner.

This article analyzes the potential of of capital and legislative support to bolster open-access networks (OANs). Though the fiber rollout has accelerated, fiber adoption is still low in the U.S. compared with other countries. This resource discusses how OANs have the potential to significantly disrupt the telecom ecosystem in the U.S. and positions them as the solution for under-penetration of fiber across the country.