Mark Vasconi served as the Director of Washington's state broadband office from 2022-2023 and as Director of Regulatory Services at the Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission from 2010-2022.
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.