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How a new model of fiber optic broadband is laying the groundwork.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first time since their inception over a century ago, America\u2019s age-old copper and cable networks are being replaced with high-speed gigabit fiber optic networks in cities across the US. Here, Ben Bawtree-Jobson, CEO of SiFi Networks, North America\u2019s leading privately owned open access broadband developer, looks at the implications ahead of the release of the company\u2019s book Broadband: The Second American Revolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At a time when connectivity matters most, 42 million Americans still do not have access to wired or fixed wireless broadband. Where it is available, consumers often only have one choice of provider, and face the prospect of inflated prices and poor customer service.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, SiFi Networks has been exploring this issue in a new book, which it hopes to release in the coming weeks. The book, titled Broadband: The Second American Revolution<\/em>, illustrates the shortcomings of the prevailing model of American broadband, where service providers own and operate their networks exclusively, instead of using a shared infrastructure like in most European and Asian countries.<\/p>\n

As well as featuring interviews with leading US representatives, and the cities pioneering the next generation of broadband, the book explores three key issues: how to bring about better consumer choice, how to tackle the digital divide through better broadband and how to lay the connectivity groundwork for the smart cities of the future.<\/p>\n

To achieve this, SiFi Networks is rolling out a new model of privately funded open access broadband in the US that will promote competition and improve consumer choice. Our city-wide fiber networks deliver wholesale access to several providers, including ISPs, cellular carriers and city municipalities, meaning that they can use the shared infrastructure to deliver better retail offerings to customers.<\/p>\n

The release of SiFi Networks\u2019 new book will come following our recent deal with the cities of Salem, MA and Placentia, CA to create citywide, fully fiber-based broadband networks. The projects, worth a combined $70m, will realize what we call FiberCities\u00ae and are just two of six cities we\u2019re working with so far. SiFi Networks has an initial $450 million of capital committed for the coming months with access to an unlimited pool of infrastructure capital to roll out the strategy to hundreds of cities in the coming years.<\/p>\n

To read more about how open access will change the future of broadband \u2013 and to sign-up to download a free copy of the book, visit https:\/\/sifinetworks.com\/futureofbroadband\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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