Join the New England Council July 22 for a 5G Wireless/Digital Divide event
How can federal policy and infrastructure investment best support the rollout of next-generation "5G" wireless networks and close the Digital Divide that has left too many lower-income, rural, and disadvantaged Americans out of all the benefits fast Internet access can deliver?
That's the focus of a panel discussion July 22 being sponsored by The New England Council and Council CEO James T. Brett, for which I am excited and grateful to be serving as panel moderator. We will go deep on all-things-telecom with:
I welcome your suggestions of questions and topics you hope we will address. I can't guarantee we'll get to any, or all, but I always appreciate crowd-sourced insights and smart question suggestions!
One quick personal note: This will be a fun homecoming for me. During my career in journalism, one of my favorite beats to report on was telecommunications at The Boston Globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s as first-generation smartphones and finally-faster-than-dialup Internet access were growing explosively. I've closely followed ever since all the innovations and transformations of this exciting industry and the companies that lead it. In hindsight, all the hype of the dot-com era about how high-speed Internet and wireless access would revolutionize how we work, connect, and inform and entertain ourselves was spot-on. Sometimes the hype was early, as stock market investors learned painfully in 1999-2000--but directionally, what broadband and wireless evangelists preached about back then has proven truly and fully borne out.
For more information about this New England Council event on Thursday, July 22, from 11 a.m. to noon, please visit: