168: Bridging the Digital Divide (live from Mountain Connect 2023)

Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #168 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Leonard and David jump into the metaverse to talk about the real attempt by the Federal government to bridge the digital divide from Mountain Connect 2023, the largest conference on rural broadband in the U.S. Leonard provides an update on the BEAD program and the process that municipalities, vendors, and service providers need to go through to get that funding. David and Leonard talk about the technologies that are available to enable the many options that BEAD recipients have to deploy broadband to each and every American when trenching fiber gets extremely costly.

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. Your hosts include Leonard Lee, Stephanie Atkinson, Marc Pous, David Vasquez, Rob Tiffany, Bill Pugh, Rick Bullotta and special guests. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.