Inside Connected America: Why broadband growth depends on collaboration

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of collaboration in expanding broadband access, featuring insights from Rob Chambers at the Connected America Conference.

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Connected Nation, we are live at the Connected America Conference in Dallas. We speak with Rob Chambers, Managing Director of Total Telecom about what’s next for Connected America and why face-to-face collaboration is critical to expanding broadband access nationwide. Recommended links: Connected America Conference Total Telecom Rob Chambers LinkedIn

People in this episode

Host: Jessica Denson

Guest: Rob Chambers

Topics covered

• broadband access
• collaboration
• Connected America
• telecommunications
• conference

Keywords

• broadband
• collaboration
• Connected America
• Total Telecom
• Rob Chambers
• Dallas
• telecommunications

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Total Telecom

Places: Dallas

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