The Workforce Drain: How Prime Contractors Are Undermining the Telecom Industry’s Future

The U.S. telecom industry is at a critical inflection point. Billions are being poured into fiber and broadband expansion by large ISPs and public funding programs like BEAD and RDOF. But while the investment headlines sound promising, there’s a quieter, more dangerous issue happening on the ground: the slow, systematic erosion of the subcontractor workforce that this entire buildout depends on….