San Francisco's Path Forward to Close Its Digital Divide

Route Fifty: Officials in San Francisco are considering three citywide gigabit internet models that would see the service publicly owned, universally accessible without discrimination and leased wholesale to qualified providers.

A report released earlier this week by Kensington, Maryland-based telecom contractor CTC Technology & Energy details how fully private or public delivery models would fail to meet San Francisco’s goals.

Instead, the report outlines two public-private procurement strategies as alternatives to a high-risk, purely public municipal fiber network: a dual lit and dark-fiber network, as well as a dark-fiber only network.

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