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Connect This!

Connect This!

By: Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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Connect This! offers an irreverent and inside look at broadband tech and policy. Each week features people with direct experience building networks or working on policy to improve broadband access. We talk about current events and focus on a big topic for half of each episode.Copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license
Episodes
  • California’s Affordable Broadband Play and Wi-Fi Under Threat | Episode 116 of the Connect This! Show
    Jun 30 2025
    Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband), Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Shayna Englin (California Community Foundation) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: Join us […]
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • BEAD Overhauled | Connect This! Show
    Jun 10 2025
    Catch an emergency episode of the Connect This! Show, with host Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by Lori Adams (Nokia), Heather Mills (Tilson), and Blair Levin (Brookings) to talk about the raft of fundamental changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Act (BEAD) announced by NTIA last Friday. States are required to rebuild and resubmit […]
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • BEAD Falls Apart | Episode 115 of the Connect This! Show
    Jun 10 2025
    Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting), and special guest Josh Etheridge to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Bountiful, Utah and Oakland, California announce […]
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    1 hr and 21 mins

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