March 19, 2024: Broadband Analytics Seminar
How quickly is the installed base of fiber growing? How does the rate of growth vary by state and by county?
A online workshop on broadband analytics on Tuesday, March 19, at 2 p.m. ET
The Growth of Fiber
As government decision-makers work through the process of BEAD planning (prior to identifying specific buildout areas or specific sub-grantees) private industry has been investing in fiber.
- How quickly is the installed base growing?'
- How does the rate of growth vary by location?
- Which providers are growing and where (competitive landscape)?
Fiber Investment Opportunities
- If I am investing in infrastructure where should I invest, and why?
- What are the most important decision-making “filters”?
- What are the key assumptions?
- How available are the data?
- How easy is it to identify opportunities?
- “Should BEAD dollars influence my decisions?
- How should I view the future?”
The Economics of BEAD Deployment
In the BEAD Implementation Summit on September 21, 2023, Evan Feinman, the BEAD Program Director, said that BEAD is “not a grants program” but is a “universal coverage infrastructure program.”
- Is he right?
- Will BEAD succeed in this broader aspiration?
- We won’t know for sure until we run the numbers.
- The seminar runs the numbers. It shows how far BEAD dollars will go, under varying sets of assumptions.
- The seminar maps the likely results.
- BEAD rules are proscriptive.
- We’ll examine the map that emerges from a financial / geospatial analysis based on BEAD rules.
- We’ll discuss the ambiguities and complex incentives facing decision-makers.
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Panelist:
J. Randolph Luening
J. Randolph Luening is the founder of BroadbandToolkit.com, a firm that provides analytical planning tools to the telecommunication industry to help state broadband offices, investors, grant applicants,engineering firms, and ISPs in BEAD / CPF and others in infrastructure and funding-related decisions. Mr. Luening has enjoyed a 35-year carrier in the fixed, mobile, and satellite telecommunications, doing business in the US, Europe, and Asia. His education includes a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (Duke University), Masters of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (Cornell University), and an MBA in Marketing (Wharton School of Business).
BroadbandToolkit.com provides analytical planning tools to the telecommunication industry to help state broadband offices, investors, grant applicants, engineering firms, and ISPs understand and manage BEAD / CPF decision-making. The firm also helps clients navigate the newly released FCC Fabric. BroadbandToolkit.com consulting enables clients to integrate location grids, dozens of layers of critical geospatial data, commercial crowd-sourced measurements, and even mobile broadband data.
Broadband Breakfast
