Cost vs. Value: When Expensive Builds Meet Long-Term Network Reality

Session details:

• Why upfront deployment cost is an incomplete measure of broadband investment decisions
• How long‑term value differs across fiber, wireless, and hybrid networks when capacity constraints are factored in
• The role of spectrum availability in shaping network performance, scalability, and sustainability
• Where operators, investors, and policymakers define 'value' differently across infrastructure and service—and how those assumptions collide
• What BEAD‑era funding assumptions get right — and where capacity and spectrum realities may fall short over time