Event Series: Fabric Forward User Conference 2025 – Seattle, WA
Next Steps in a Post BEAD World: What You Need to Know to Optimize Network Expansion Projects
October 21 @ 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
As of October 2025, BEAD funding will be well underway, and the spotlight will soon shift from allocation to execution. With billions in network expansion awarded to ISPs, the focus will be:
- Strategically deploy capital to optimize public and private investments
- Analyzing competitor growth trends
- Predicting future network growth opportunities from MDUs to new neighborhood developments
Topics we’ll cover:
- Brief update on the current state of the BEAD program as of October 2025
- How can capital investments and public funding for effective network buildouts be wisely distributed
- Predicting growth:
- How to leverage data to gain intelligence on growing areas:
- How is your competition building? And if you don’t know, how do you predict growth?
- How do you find MDU and new neighborhood development opportunities? When will they pop up?
- How to compare growth trends across technologies for example Fixed Wireless, fiber, and satellite.
- Review simple data solution to easily uncover network expansion areas and predict where expansion is likely to go
- How to leverage data to gain intelligence on growing areas:
Learn how to utilize public and private investments effectively to build your network, easily analyze your competition’s growth trends, and predict new network growth opportunities.
