Broadband Development Conference
Wyoming, Broadband Manager
Chad Bolling is the Broadband Manager for Wyoming, working with to enhance connectivity across the state. He has 10+ years of experience in the telecom industry. He began his career at Level 3 Communications (now Lumen) in customer care then worked at Zayo Group for eight and a half years in various roles in project management, fiber engineering, and customer success. Chad grew up in South Louisiana and attended high school in Dallas, Texas, before earning a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Houston and a Masters from Colorado State University in Organizational Leadership. He then moved to Wyoming to be closer to his family.
What’s Gone Right, What’s Gone Wrong, and What We Don’t Know. This panel will offer perspectives from industry stakeholders and experts on the time between the Benefit of the Bargain and putting shovels in the ground. The discussion will focus on technology selection, subgrant agreement negotiation, why provisional subgrantees are walking away, and what states are doing about it – the buildup to bringing broadband to the unserved. The panelists will also look to the future of the BEAD program and what it will take to be successful.
