In this latest issue of Building Broadband, we’re tracking new broadband deployments from several regional and national broadband players, including:

• Brightspeed connects 8,000 homes and businesses in Western Ohio
• Conterra Networks furthers XGS-PON path with Ciena's Open PON platform
• Fidium expands fiber to Gouldsboro, Winter Harbor, and Wiscasset
• Gateway Fiber is expanding its network into Cottage Grove, Minnesota
• Intrepid Fiber Networks raises $425 million to accelerate fiber broadband expansion
• SBA Communications to enable 10G fiber broadband for Wyld Oaks development
• STELLAR Broadband brings 10G fiber internet to Farmington and Farmington Hills

About the Podcast In the Lightwave+BTR Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at www.broadbandpulse.podbean.com/.

In the latest episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, we talked to Ted Schremp, president and CEO of IQ Fiber.

Ted was an early pioneer in developing services like telephony for the cable industry during his time at Charter Communications. He’s now carrying on that innovative spirit to drive fiber broadband growth at IQ Fiber.

In May, IQ Fiber launched Businesses in Jacksonville, Gainesville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia, that can take advantage of the competitive carrier’s fiber-based services. Let’s start by talking about how that has gone so far.

About the Podcast In the Lightwave Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at www.broadbandpulse.podbean.com.

In this latest Broadband Pulse podcast, we talked to Paul Garnett, the founder and CEO of the Vernonburg group.

Vernonburg recently issued a new white paper showing that broadband funding achieves more than twice the impact when invested in adoption-focused programs rather than network overbuilds in already-served areas.

The new report, Avoiding the Overbuild Trap: Adoption, Not Overbuilding, Drives Connectivity and Digital Opportunity, challenges the practice of using public funds to subsidize new broadband networks in areas where high-speed service is already available. The three authors of the report—Paul Garnett, Breese McIlvaine, and Alexander Jeffery—urged policymakers to develop and implement comprehensive digital opportunity programs that address what they argue are the real drivers of the digital divide.

Leveraging Vernonburg Group’s Digital Opportunity Map and other sources, the report discusses publicly available data on broadband availability and adoption -- with specific community examples -- and details principles that should guide broadband funding programs.

Here’s a timeline of the interview:

Opening | 0.00

Host introduces the guest | 0:06

Vernonburg’s new broadband white paper | 0:39

Public vs. privately funded broadband networks | 4:10

Public/Private (P3s) broadband partnerships | 6:07

Technology choice | 7:48

Driving broadband adoption | 11:07

The role of digital navigators | 14:48

Final thoughts | 16:37

Outro | 19:00 About the Podcast In the Lightwave+BTR Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at www.broadbandpulse.podbean.com.