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The Divide: EFF's Ernesto Falcon on 'building back better' broadband
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Welcome to "The Divide" – a new podcast from Light Reading exploring the ongoing digital divide: why it still exists, where it still exists and what needs to be done to fix it.
Our guest is Ernesto Falcon, senior legislative counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). We discussed the need for nationwide fiber infrastructure in the US and what's holding that up, what the pandemic has revealed about broadband policy in the US, and what to expect from the incoming Biden administration on the broadband front.
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The Divide: Joey Wender on US Treasury's $10B down payment on closing the digital divide
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DC Blox sheds light on dark fiber, landing station buildouts
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26:59Great Plains Communications CIO Katie Curtis explains how recent acquisitions have contributed to upgrading the telco's OSS/BSS.
The Divide: Why BEAD funds should go to local service providers
30:05This week: Kerry Haughan, SVP, commercial strategy at Calix, on why Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funds should go to local providers, and overcoming the hurdles making it hard for smaller providers to participate.