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Broadband investment would mean billions to NC, but there’s a holdup: Utility poles

Broadband investment would mean billions to NC, but there’s a holdup: Utility poles

by Edward Lopez | Sep 5, 2021 | News, Research, The Director's Blog

To be included in today’s digital world, all North Carolinians need access to reliable, high-speed broadband. Yet, today nearly 472,000 in our state – primarily in rural communities – remain without broadband access, limiting their options to work, learn, pray,...

Utility Poles: Key to Achieving Full Broadband Access in North Carolina*

by Edward Lopez | Aug 5, 2021 | Research, The Director's Blog

Robert Cooter and Thomas Ulen’s classic textbook, Law & Economics 4th Edition, describes the concept known as the Hold Up Problem. A hold up is a market actor who possesses and exercises market power to interrupt others’ ongoing physical investment...

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