Community broadband can deliver immeasurable benefits, including a path to the digital future to ensure your community’s place in the innovation economy. And optical fiber – just like roads and waterways – is a key tool for economic development. An all-fiber network can improve public services, make communities more attractive to residents and businesses, and bolster competition and fiber adoption to help close the digital divide. When planning for your fiber optic network, don’t go it alone. Corning can help, with a robust ecosystem to help you in every aspect of your deployment, from project financing and planning to network design and management.
An Investment for the Future
An Investment for the Future
What Should you Consider?
Take rate risk
Take rate risk
If you build it, will they come? Take rate considerations should factor into your planning and decision process, but perhaps the greatest risk of all is to be left behind because you’ve done nothing.
If you build it, will they come? Take rate considerations should factor into your planning and decision process, but perhaps the greatest risk of all is to be left behind because you’ve done nothing.
Regulatory environment
Regulatory environment
The demand for municipal broadband networks has never been stronger, but there are regulations dotting the landscape that can impact every stage of deployment. Actions at both the state and federal level are worthy of investigation. Learn more about the regulatory environment facing municipal deployments.
The demand for municipal broadband networks has never been stronger, but there are regulations dotting the landscape that can impact every stage of deployment. Actions at both the state and federal level are worthy of investigation.
Funding model
Funding model
Do you have a defined strategy in place to pay for your broadband infrastructure? There are options, including direct funding from the municipality, private investment, or a combination of both. Find out how other communities have financed their networks.
Do you have a defined strategy in place to pay for your broadband infrastructure? There are options, including direct funding from the municipality, private investment, or a combination of both. Find out how other communities have financed their networks.
Additional Information
Additional Information
Fast Facts
Community Case Studies
- Internet for Everyone | Seward, Nebraska
- Local Leaders Seize the Promise of Community Broadband | Baldwin City, Kansas
- Offering 10 Gig Community Broadband as a Utility | Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Leveraging technology to offer next-generation services | Ontario & Trumansburg Telephone Companies (OTTC)
- Bringing Community Broadband Home | Fairlawn, Ohio
Case Study
Video Case Study
Articles
Investigating Broadband Investment in American Cities
Corning is an underwriter of a new study “The Aspirational City” revealing how (and if) American cities are investing in broadband infrastructure. The study, conducted by Strategic Networks Group (SNG), explores the gaps and challenges Broadband Cities are experiencing, and what they’re doing about them.
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We’d be happy to discuss the details of your broadband vision and can provide you with a cost analysis that compares the speed and cost of deployment for a full-splice, semi-precon, and full-precon deployment in your community.