In 2021, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave US infrastructure a grade of C-, amid a $2.59 trillion shortfall in infrastructure spending. While telecom infrastructure is comparatively younger than infrastructure categories like dams and bridges, its assets are aging at an accelerated rate, when you consider the pace of the technological advancements that it is supposed to support.
This executive brief examines the regulatory, geographic and economic factors inhibiting the modernization of legacy networks and how the enterprise is impacted as a result.