Next, Gary Bolton, President and CEO of Fiber Broadband Association, the largest trade association dedicated to all-fiber-optic broadband, presented and then took part in Q&A for the rest of the call! (Thank you, Gary!) There was A LOT of information exchanged, so we encourage you to watch the replay of the call in order to catch everything because we are only including some the resources shared below.
Since there is a limit to the size of attachments on our email service, we've created a page for the documents Gary shared (his presentation, a FBA white paper, and a recent letter to the Communications and Technology Subcommittee) which you can view and download here:
https://virginiansforsafetech.org/fiber-broadband-association/
Also mentioned during the call is Gary's Fiber for Breakfast weekly 30-minute syndicated video/podcast, which you can find out more about here: https://www.fiberbroadband.org/page/fiber-for-breakfast
To find even more information, you can visit the Fiber Broadband Association's general website here: https://www.fiberbroadband.org/
Another resource Gary mentioned is the book by UVA Professor called 'Farm Fresh Broadband' which is an "An analysis of the failure of U.S. broadband policy to solve the rural–urban digital divide, with a proposal for a new national rural broadband plan" which works to keep the solution about people. Here is a link to the book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/farm-fresh-broadband
For our Europeans on the call, Gary gave us his European counterpart as well as his contact information if you'd like to make the connection: