Harvard's Inaccurate Picture of Municipal Broadband Pricing

A recent study from a Harvard University group claims that government-owned broadband networks offer lower prices than the networks of private providers, but the argument quickly falls apart when you drill down into the data. The report from the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard claims that in 23 of 27 communities in which private providers' prices could be compared to government networks, the government networks' prices were lower over a four-year period. Researchers used the least-expensive service that meets the Federal Communications Commission's definition of broadband — 25 megabits per second download speeds and 3 mbps upload speeds — for