U.S. Telecom Infrastructure Crisis

In 2020 as public health restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly converted millions of American homes into offices, classrooms and medical clinics, accumulated deficits in advanced telecommunications infrastructure and related challenges of access and affordability that have existed for years reached a crisis point.

This book describes how the crisis is affecting people, the factors that brought it about and prolong it, the outlook for its resolution and a path forward: publicly owned, open access fiber infrastructure passing reaching every home as telephone service did in the mid-20th century.