Connect This!

By Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Connect This! offers an irreverent and inside look at broadband tech and policy. Each week features people with direct experience building networks or working on policy to improve broadband access. We... more

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The podcast currently has 126 episodes available.

Connect This! episodes:

December 13, 20242024 in Review | Episode 104 of the Connect This! Show
Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Jade Piros de Carvalho (Bonfire). Topics include:
New York state can require a low-income plan option for ISPs after the Supreme Court declines to hear arguments
Looking back on the legacy of the Biden FCC after four years
Revisiting our predictions about how the year would go to see how we did
Join us live on December 19th, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.
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1h 11min
November 26, 2024What Comes Next | Episode 103 of the Connect This! Show
Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-host Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Heather Mills (Tilson) and Lori Adams (Nokia) to talk about what comes next as we approach a new year. Topics include:
A new anti-municipal network “study” that recently came out
Connecting the last and most-expensive 10 percent of households with BEAD
Federal telecom policy in a post-Biden world
Join us live on December 6, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.
We return on December 19th at 2pm ET.
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1h 9min
November 12, 2024Dear Rural America: Starlink and Mobile Wireless Are Not Coming to Save You | Episode 102 of the Connect This! Show
Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.
Topics include:
Verizon and AT&T claiming that the FCC can’t stop them from selling your data
Starlink introduces a wait list and finally adds a customer help line
The startling decline in spectrum value for mmWave
Funding announcements in New York and California that favor public networks
The Dish/Direct TV deal looks kaput
How we would redesign the Affordable Connectivity Program, and why
Join us live on November 22, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.
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1h 14min
October 25, 2024 Nice Knowing You, BEAD, and Building Better Middle Mile Networks | Episode 101 of the Connect This! Show
Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Matt Peterson (SFMIX). They talk about some of the sea changes we expect to see with the change in federal administrations with relation to BEAD before a long conversation with California-based IX builder Matt Peterson about whether we need more middle mile in this country and how we might best build it.
Join us live on November 8, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.
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1h 17min
October 10, 2024 Resilient Networks, BEAD Hypocrisy, and the 2024 Election | Episode 100 of the Connect This! Show
Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) and Blair Levin (New Street Research) to celebrate 100 episodes of the show. They talk about a new survey showing average broadband pricing hitting more than $100/month for the first time in some states, communications networks in the wake of Hurricane Helene, the hypocrisy of attacks on BEAD by a certain segment of lawmakers and regulators, T-Mobile getting in some hot water after reneging on its lifetime price lock for subscribers, and what we can expect from the aftermath of the 2024 election.
Join us live on October 24, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.
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1h 16min
September 16, 2024 Cox v. Rhode Island and FWA Advancements | Episode 99.4 of the Connect This! Show
Join us Friday, September 27th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests Matt Larsen (Vistabeam) and Sascha Meinrath (X-Lab) to talk about the Cox v. Rhode Island case and hear about some recent wireless deployments in the fixed wireless space that dramatically reduce the cost per passing while still delivering multi-gigabit speeds.
Will we finally hit 100 episodes in 2024? You’ll have to join us to find out.
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1h 16min
August 30, 2024 Convergence is Here | Episode 99.3 of the Connect This! Show
Join us Thursday, September 12th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about Verizon buying Frontier, AT&T working with Gigapower on open access efforts, Charter still not deploying CBRS, and more.
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1h 16min
August 29, 2024 FWA vs. Wired Connections, Spectrum Sharing Rules, and Satellite Service | Episode 99.2 of the Connect This! Show
Join us Thursday, August 29 at 4:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the growth of the Fixed Wireless Access service marketplace by the large mobile carriers, proposed changes to CBRS spectrum sharing rules that could prove to be a boon for innovation and low-cost deployment, the bundling problem with TV and sports, and where to get your telecom news in a world where good journalism is getting gutted.
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1h 6min
August 19, 2024 Brownsville is Lit, SpaceX and BEAD, and SiFi and T-Mobile | Episode 99.1 of the Connect This! Show
Join us on Thursday, August 15th at 2:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Alexis Shrubbe (University of Chicago) and Sean Gonsalves (ILSR) to talk about Brownsville, Texas lighting up its first subscriber, SpaceX’s claim to be a good fit for BEAD dollars, and SiFi partnering with T-Mobile.
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1h 5min
August 02, 2024 USF Reform and the Start of the Big Fiber Rollup | Episode 99 of the Connect This! Show
Join us Wednesday, July 31st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guest Case Lide (Keller and Heckman) to talk about T-Mobile buying Metronet, USF being cancelled by the Fifth Circuit, free municipal fiber in North Kansas City, Charter and Comcast losing more subscribers, and more.
Email us at [email protected] with feedback and ideas for the show.
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1h 7min

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