Article summarizing key points from Broadband Investment conference
Utopia Fiber Model Open Access Network
Update: RantWoman got in a hurry to post this and forgot to mention some points she thought were COOL about a webinar sponsored by UTOPIA about Broadband Investment. The main topic of the webinar was fiber. Fiber of course does not define all of broadband. RantWoman for instance learned of the webinar from Twitter on her phone moments before it was due to start.
Technological questions around the edges of this were handled graciously. One of the sessions delved sufficiently into technological minutia to satisfy much bigger gearheads than RantWoman and RantWoman assumes one rarely makes technological evaluations based only on one webinar anyway.
RantWoman was impressed by speakers who spoke of how to build comparatively high return on investment by thinking in terms longer than one or two quarters at a time. RantWoman was also impressed when multiple speakers spoke of the value of building consensus with input from multiple geographical communities about collaboration for investment in broadband projects.
RantWoman thinks there was mention of posting a link to the full webinar but does not remember seeing anything like that. RantWoman went back to the Broadband Breakfast site and found plenty to keep her engaged and coming back though.
RantWoman wants further to make a couple comments about diversity and inclusion.
First, RantWoman got to ask a question. RantWoman asked a slightly different version of something she had posted in the chat basically about telemedicine and getting parties like insurers to kick in resources. RantWoman raised her hand in Zoom and was called on. RantWoman does not always even try to look at people's faces to see how the audience is reacting. RantWoman is pretty self-conscious about this because although she is certain that brilliant wisdom is flowing from her mouth, she would prefer not to bore people or stress them out too much. However, RantWoman does not see facial cues and people are taught not to interrupt a speaker. RantWoman got gently interrupted so RantWoman finished her elevator speech intro and her question and then stopped. And the moderator asked RantWoman's permission to rephrase what made it out of RantWoman's mouth more in the direction of what RantWoman had posted in the chat. Brilliant. Find to interrupt n this case and thanks for the comments from the panel that followed.
RantWoman has another observation which gets to be saved for now because RantWoman needs to go outdoors and bask in sunlight and tear herself away from the blinking screen.
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