General Session: Monday

State of the States: Ensuring Fiber Reaches Everyone

Monday, June 13, 2022

10:10am – 10:50am

Location: Presidential Ballroom C/D/E

There’s no “one-size-fits-all” solution to delivering broadband. State and Tribal governments are setting customized objectives and strategies to deliver broadband to their citizens, considering their unique challenges in geographies, existing infrastructure, and underserved/unserved regions. Learn about the hurdles states are facing and the solutions they are building to fulfill their commitments, which include selecting fiber to fulfill critical mid-mile and last-mile requirements supporting all-fiber deployments in greenfield expansion builds, last-mile modernization in legacy cable and copper service areas and providing compulsory backbone support for alternative last-mile fixed-wireless networks. expanding existing cellular coverage and delivering 5G services.

Moderator(s)

Sean P. Buckley

Editor-in-Chief
Broadband Communities Magazine

Panelist(s)

Godfrey Enjady

President
National Tribal Telecommunication Association
Martha Galley

Executive Vice President, Customer Engagement & Services
Calix
Tamarah A. Holmes

Director, Office of Broadband
Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
Peggy Schaffer

Executive Director
Connect Maine
Jessica Simmons

Deputy CIO, Broadband & Special Projects
Georgia Technical Authority
Laura K. Spining

Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Internet Connectivity & Growth
NTIA