Across rural America, telecom providers are in the midst of a high-stakes transition from legacy DSL and fixed wireless systems to modern fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. While public grants and private capital have catalyzed infrastructure buildouts, EBITDA recovery has proven elusive. Many firms are discovering that simply “building the network” does not guarantee a sustainable business. Instead, legacy operating models, fragmented technology stacks, and misaligned governance structures are creating headwinds that stall profitability, often for years.
This section explores the core organizational, technological, and capital allocation barriers to EBITDA recovery for private equity firms with rural U.S. interests, and outlines a modern, tech-enabled model that leading firms are adopting to break through.

As AI advances, so do inflationary cost pressures in the industry, I see six key questions facing private equity firms looking either to bolster their holding returns via U.S. rural telecom investment, or to geographically diversify their holding returns by adding U.S. exposure.

This guide was designed to help private equity firms better understand how AI technology is impacting the U.S. rural telecommunications market to provide them better context about current cost drivers, EBITDA recapture opportunities, and the impact of AI as both a source of investment alpha, and as an evaluative consideration for investors interested in the U.S. rural telecommunications market – both software providers and fiberoptic broadband accelerators.

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