Citywide broadband service could cost over $200 million, study says

Noted: The cost to build the network — short of the lines connecting individual users — would be about $150 million. How much of that funding would fall on the city depends on how much private companies would be willing to invest in the project and how much funding the city can get from the federal government, said Barry Orton, chairman of the Citywide Broadband Subcommittee and a professor emeritus at UW-Madison.