Broadband Subsidy Programs Under a Trump Administration: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Center for Business & Public Policy

McDonough School of Business

Georgetown University

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 12:00pm to 12:45pm
Time Zone 
EST
Virtual Event

Carolyn Brandon and Jen Fritzsche discuss the future of broadband subsidy programs under a Trump Administration.

Joining Brandon and Fritzsche are Michael Santorelli, director of the Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute at New York Law School and author of How To Free BEAD From Its Bureaucratic Shackles; Dr. Roslyn Layton, executive vice president at Strand Consult and author of Ending Big Tech’s Free Ride on USF: Reforming the Universal Service Fund to Serve Consumers and America; and B. Lynn Follansbee, vice president of strategic initiatives and partnerships for USTelecom.

The speakers will discuss their own research as well as share insights into the kind of reforms we might expect from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).