The Broadband Opportunity Council has the ability to make important policy changes that can speed our nation’s continued transformation to a digital economy. With a focus on narrow, bipartisan reforms, the BOC can and should pick the low-hanging fruit of standardizing and streamlining access to infrastructure. Easing access to federal property for wireless equipment as well as facilitating conduit deployment alongside federally-funded projects would go a long way towards broadband deployment, adoption, and competition.
