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# March 19, 2024: Broadband Analytics Seminar
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/broadband-analytics-seminar/
- Published: 2023-12-22T01:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-22T16:26:15.000Z
- Description: How quickly is the installed base of fiber growing? How does the rate of growth vary by state and by county?
- Author: J. Randolph Luening
- Tags: BroadbandToolkit Seminar, #no-ads, #no-flux, #$

### *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)?

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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?”

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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.”](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/bead-director-says-ntia-is-working-on-changes-to-letter-of-credit/)

- 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.

### *Whitepaper library:*

[WhitepapersWhitepapers BEAD / CPF (1-9-2023)FCC Fabric: first look at the November 18th, 2022 results (link) BEAD / CPF (1-1-2023)Location Challenges: the new math of broadband funding (link) BEAD / CPF (11-17-2022)Ookla: using Ookla crowd-sourced data to visualize fixed broadband performance (link) BEAD / CPF (8-10-2022)State ofBroadband Toolkit![](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0363/0392/9388/files/Social_Icon_d1eac03e-403b-40f9-ae32-7e33434a95d8.png?v=1590565182)](https://broadbandtoolkit.com/pages/whitepapers?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com)

### *Panelist*:

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### 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).

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[BroadbandToolkit.com](https://broadbandtoolkit.com/?ref=broadbandbreakfast.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.

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