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  "textContent": "Broadband deployment is accelerating across the country, but progress isn’t uniform, and the real impact is just beginning to take shape. This session brings together companies tracking, mapping, and analyzing network buildout to examine where networks are being built, where gaps remain, and how deployment patterns are evolving as funding flows into the market. What can we learn from the latest deployment trends? And what do early outcomes suggest about the next phase of broadband expansion?\n\n## Sign up for FREE for 'The State of Broadband Deployment: Progress, Gaps, and Early Outcomes'\n\nOnce you log in, click this link to watch the BroadbandLive program\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nBetter Broadband, Better Lives\n\n### _Panelists_\n\n  * **Brian Allenby** , Director of State Solutions, CostQuest Associates\n  * **Bryan Darr** , Vice President, Government Affairs, Ookla\n  * **Alexei Monsarrat** , Director of Broadband Projects, Vermont Department of Public Service\n  * **Paroma Sanyal** , Principal, Brattle Group\n  *  _Other panelists have been invited_\n  * **Drew Clark** (moderator), CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast\n\n\n\n**Brian Allenby** serves as Director of State Solutions at CostQuest Associates, where he supports states, ISPs and other stakeholders as they navigate broadband planning, mapping, and BEAD implementation. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of the Maine Connectivity Authority, where he oversaw last-mile broadband infrastructure programs, grant administration, finance, and communications related to the state’s progress toward universal connectivity. Allenby holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Law, Economics, and Government from American University.\n\n**Bryan Darr** is the Vice-President of Government Affairs at Ookla, spearheading the company’s programs for federal, state and local governments. He also leads Ookla’s advocacy efforts with lawmakers and policy organizations, promoting the value of both crowdsourced intelligence and controlled network performance collection to help with better data-driven decisioning. He currently serves on CTIA’s Connected Infrastructure Working Group, WIA’s Innovation Technology Council and the Wireless History Foundation’s Board of Directors.\n\nDr. **Paroma Sanyal** is a telecommunications industry expert, specializing in telecommunications asset valuation, spectrum policy, auctions, broadband, cost modelling, competition, regulation, consumer protection, and telecom-related intellectual property matters. She frequently advises clients on telecommunications asset valuation, regulatory issues in fixed and mobile broadband, spectrum auctions, spectrum value, and spectrum availability. Dr. Sanyal has consulted on numerous major Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectrum and subsidy auctions and has helped clients navigate complex regulatory issues. She also regularly advises clients on telecom-related competition analyses and consults on false advertising cases and various telecom-related litigation matters. In addition to regulatory, policy, and valuation analyses, Dr. Sanyal’s engagements have also focused on a range of issues within the intellectual property, FRAND, privacy regulation, data breach cases, and false advertising.\n\nBreakfast Media LLC CEO **Drew Clark** has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. An early proponent of better broadband, better lives, he initially founded the Broadband Census crowdsourcing tool to collect and verify broadband data left unpublished by the Federal Communications Commission. As CEO and Publisher, Clark presides over the leading media community advocating for higher-capacity internet everywhere through topical, timely and intelligent coverage. Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband initiative.",
  "title": "Broadband Breakfast on May 27, 2026 - The State of Broadband Deployment: Progress, Gaps, and Early Outcomes",
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