Presentation to the Telecommunications Association of Michigan Annual Meeting, Dearborn, Michigan.
“We now know that many of the services once thought to be “public goods” properly delivered by governments can in fact be delivered better by private competing companies. Privatization, not municipalization, is a multi-billion-dollar megatrend at the municipal level in the U.S. … and worldwide. It has been studied extensively … a literature that the advocates of municipal broadband are, without exception, completely ignorant of.”
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Joseph Bast is a Senior Fellow at The Heartland Institute. He cofounded Heartland in 1984, serving as executive director then as president & CEO until January 2018. His research and writing focuses on climate change and energy policy.
