Broadband Development Conference

Greg Guice

Vernonburg Group, Chief Policy Officer

Greg Guice has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications and technology sector. Greg serves as Vernonburg Group’s Chief Policy Officer, where he leads the domestic portfolio of work focused on helping corporate clients, public interest and civil society organizations, and Tribal, local and state governments as they seek to close the unique digital divides faced in the communities they serve. Greg also helps clients develop and implement advocacy strategies before federal policymakers on telecommunications and technology policy matters, helping them navigate a rapidly evolving policy landscape on Capitol Hill and in the administrative agencies.

Prior to joining Vernonburg Group, Greg spent two years working at public interest organization Public Knowledge, where he was at the forefront of negotiations for the largest infrastructure bill in a generation. He also spent 9 years at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and McGuire Woods, helping a range of technology and telecommunications clients pursue their regulatory needs. Greg began is career and spent fourteen years at the Federal Communications Commission developing policies related to rural broadband access, affordability, and adoption as well as spectrum policy, public safety and cybersecurity.

Greg has a Juris Doctorate from George Mason School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is based in Washington, DC.

All Sessions by Greg Guice

10:15 am - 10:45 am
Governors Square 11

Preventing the BEAD Pole Dance

As BEAD projects are poised to start coming online, the deployment timeframe will be set for projects around the country, which can turn into a point of leverage for pole owners to delay and extract unreasonably high attachment fees from the ISPs trying to deploy broadband in these areas.