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Outside Plant Considerations: Digging in as BEAD Doles Out

Rural Market Expansion: Going the Extra Long Last Mile

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
1:50 PM – 2:30 PM CT
Location: Canal E
Deployment

    Moderator(s)

  • Darin Howe (he/him/his)

    Carrier Solutions Innovation Manager
    Corning
    Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

    • Panelist(s)

  • Joe D. Centobene, Jr.

    Head of Fiber Engineering and Construction
    Brightspeed
    Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Jonathan Fitz

    Director of Advanced Business Solutions
    Prysmian, South Carolina, United States

  • Dustin Heath

    Director of Engineering
    CHR Solutions
    Houston, Texas, United States

  • Colby Humphrey

    Research Officer, Broadband Access Initiative
    The Pew Charitable Trusts
    Waco, Texas, United States

Country roads, lonesome highways and the off beaten path lead to homes in rural communities. How do operators overcome deployment challenges reaching people in rural communities where homes are sometimes a mile or more off the main road, where population density is measured in livestock instead of people? This panel will discuss how to best reach the previously unreachable in rural communities to bring them to the other side of the digital divide.