Category: Content
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Virtual Vengeance – Today’s Reality
Note: This book review is dedicated to the late John P. Messmer: a voracious reader, outstanding engineer, and stand-up guy with an enormous heart. Paying homage to Messmer’s book-a-day reading habit, this reviewer read Virtual Vengeance in a day. It was refreshing to read words on paper, instead of a screen, and to become engrossed…
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The Pictures Tell the Story
“With three pictures, you have summarized the whole story – no need for text anymore,” wrote Christele Bouchat, Co-Director for the Broadband Forum’s Wireless-Wireline Convergence Work Area. This statement inspired the idea of putting those images into a sequence to promote the article to which Bouchat referred. This seemed like a perfect opportunity to create…
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FCC’s Carr is a Fan of Field Visits, Foe of Regulatory Overreach
This is the final installment of Steve Pastorkovich’s excellent coverage of NTCA’s 2023 Telecom Executive Policy Summit (TEPS). The first article on the topic of broadband funding is here and the second article regarding security and network resilience in the face of attacks is here. FCC’s Commissioner Carr on the Importance of Field Visits, and…
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CISA: “Shields Up” is the New Normal; New Rules Coming
This is the second of three articles covering NTCA’s Telecom Executive Policy Summit. The first article can be found here. One hundred rural broadband provider executives came to the nation’s capital for sessions and meetings with legislators and other policymakers November 6 – 7th as part of the Telecom Executive Policy Summit (TEPS), produced by…
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Funding & Universal Service Are Key; What Comes Next Also Covered at NTCA’s Telecom Executive Policy Summit
Funding & Universal Service Are Key; What Comes Next Also Covered at NTCA’s Telecom Executive Policy Summit Roughly 100 rural broadband provider executives heard from key government officials during the first day of the Telecom Executive Policy Summit (TEPS) in Washington, DC, produced by NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association. Prior to meeting with their…
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Build a BEAD Buffer
Build a buffer is Shelby Pardy’s advice to operators thinking of participating in NTIA’s BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) program. Pardy, an analyst for Vantage Point Solutions, points out this is more than budgeting extra dollars for inflationary pressures. It means dealing with new rules such as workforce diversity/training, climate resiliency, and sourcing requirements…
