New York under Hochul Wasting Taxpayer Millions on Connecting Served Broadband Locations, Analysts Say
Michael Santorelli and Alex Karras at New York Law School also suggest NTIA might withhold BEAD funds until New York repeals its broadband rate-regulation law
NY: New York state under Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on ConnectAll broadband projects that overwhelmingly duplicate existing service while tens of thousands of homes still lack access, according to a report released Thursday by analysts at the Advanced Communications Law and Policy Institute at New York Law School.
“Overbuilding broadband networks with public funding is wasteful because it diverts resources from the roughly 61,000 locations across New York that still lack broadband options,” said study authors Michael Santorelli and Alex Karras. “In theory, the state’s BEAD program will allocate fund projects to serve most, if not, all these locations.” (More after paywall.)
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