U.S. Telecom Infrastructure Crisis: America's botched modernization of copper to fiber -- and the path forward

In 2020 as public health restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly converted millions of American homes into offices, classrooms and medical clinics, the nation's accumulated deficits in advanced telecommunications infrastructure and related challenges of access and affordability that had been in place for years have now reached a crisis point. The root of the problem is a failure of planning and policy over the past quarter century to ensure decades old copper telephone lines that...