If there are 200,000 people in a service area $85 million works out to $425 per person. Those costs will be recovered through various channels over time, including billing insurance companies that collect premiums and government programs. Some individual's cost through Medicare or Medicaid, so taxpayers nation wide pay for parts of it. But if someone is paying the average amount for a family of 5 the cost over time to that family is $2,125. That doesn't count operating cost, it is just the cost of the upgrade. And if a company is paying premiums for 100 people (including family) and they pay the average amount through the premiums it would be $42,500.  Those numbers are approximations. "Ball park" numbers. But a cost of $85 million has been incurred and those costs will need to be paid over time and a very large chunk of it will be paid by the community.