Op-Ed
Affordable Connectivity Program needs permanent funding
The Federal Communications Commission’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) has been a huge success with over 12 million eligible low-income households signed up so far and approximately 150 thousand new households signing up each week.
Publications
A Handbook for the Effective Administration of State and Local Digital Equity Programs - Feb 2023
Toward Effective Administration of State and Local Fixed Broadband Programs - June 2022
The Great Upheaval : Resetting Development Policy and Institutions for the Decade of Action in Asia and the Pacific - April 2022
A Handbook for the Effective Administration of State and Local Broadband Programs - February 2022
Connect2Recover: A methodology for identifying connectivity gaps and strengthening resilience in the new normal - October 2021
Development of National Broadband Plans in Latin America and the Caribbean - September 2021
Press Releases
Testimony and Written Statements
High-Cost Universal Service Reform Presentation to Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service - February 20, 2007Written Testimony of Paul W. Garnett [Assistant Vice President, Regulatory Affairs CTIA-The Wireless Association®] Before the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service - February 20, 2007Written statement of Paul W. Garnett Before the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service on Reforming the Current High-cost Universal Service Support Mechanism - November 17, 2004
Interviews
Articles
WISPA underwrites tool for state broadband offices to calculate high-cost thresholds
The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) has been telling everyone for a couple of years that some unserved locations in the U.S. will be too expensive to reach with fiber broadband, and trying to cover these locations with fiber will waste BEAD money. And now, WISPA has underwritten an analysis tool to help state broadband officers set their extremely-high-cost thresholds.