In this episode, we have the chance to interview leaders helping municipalities navigate, understand and realize the vision of connecting their communities through broadband. We speak with Jeff Gavlinski, CEO of Mountain Connect (www.mountainconnect.org) about his mission and observations into the market. Cat Blake from Next Century Cities (www.nextcenturycities.org) talks about how they are helping hundreds of municipalities and walks us through the Becoming Broadband Ready Toolkit. Mark Guillen from Crown Castle (www.crowncastle.com) joins us to explain what's driving use of small cell towers and impact of 5G. Then Dan Flemming from Render (www.rendernetworks.com) talks about innovative approaches to accelerating the time and effort from planning to building broadband networks.

In this episode, we speak with Will Aycock, General Manager of Greenlight Community Broadband in Wilson, N.C. as well as Christy Batts with CDE Lightband out of Clarksville, TN. Will and Christy share their community’s broadband journey and provide insight for other municipalities considering broadband. Fiber Connect 2019, sponsored by the Fiber Broadband Association, is a great opportunity to meet some of the leaders in Municipal Broadband.

In this episode, we continue our interviews at the Fiber Connect 2019 event sponsored by the Fiber Broadband Association. We meet Kevin Mitchel from Alianza and Kristie Goodson from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

In this episode recorded at the Fiber Connect 2019 event hosted by the Fiber Broadband Association we meet with Patrik Lowenborgg of Biarri Networks as well as Bernie Arnason from the Pivot Group.