Speakers

Mr. Stegeman, who has testified before Congress multiple times, is a recognized expert behind the development of the latest generation economic cost models and locational data used by cable, telco, tower and wireless companies and by state and government agencies in support of broadband deployment analysis and network valuation. He leads a firm of leading geospatial and data scientist, database and costing experts, and broadband and valuation specialist. He is leading the design and implementation of the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric adopted and used by the FCC for the national broadband mapping effort, which was also used to drive the funding allocation of NTIA’s $42.45Billion BEAD program. He was retained by NTIA to help investigate approaches to be used in NTIA’s BEAD program. He has been retained by States to help develop broadband grant and auction programs. He led the design, coding and implementation of the Connect America Cost Model (“CAM”, “CACM”, “A-CAM”) that was used to implement the Connect America Fund and is still being used by the FCC to disburse over $1.5Billion annually to fund broadband deployment and was used by the FCC to set the reserve levels for the CAFII and RDOF auctions. He led the design, coding and implementation of the Broadband Analysis Model that was used by the FCC to develop the National Broadband Plan delivered to the US Congress.