More than half of municipal broadband projects are unprofitable [telecom]

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More than half of municipal broadband projects are unprofitable, University of Pennsylvania study says.

by Daniel Frankel, FierceCable, May 25, 2017

Eleven out of 20 municipal broadband networks closely observed in a University of Pennsylvania Law School study are cash-flow negative.

The report, generated by U of Penn law professor Christopher Yoo and co-authored by student Timothy Pfenninger, found that of the nine municipal broadband projects that are making any money, the cash flow is so small that it would take more than a century to recover project costs.

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