Fiber for Breakfast 2023 Week 37 – The FCC Maps are Going to be Wrong, and That’s OK

Join us for this Fiber for Breakfast, “The FCC maps are going to be wrong, and that’s OK.” But the challenge process itself will be challenging.

Scott Wallsten, President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute (TPI), will discuss the error inherent to any mapping process, the incentives the challenge process creates, and TPI’s own approach to challenges.

Webinar Guest

Scott Wallsten is President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute and also a senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. He is an economist with expertise in industrial organization and public policy. He was the economics director for the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, has been a lecturer in Stanford University’s public policy program, director of communications policy studies and senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a senior fellow at the AEI – Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, an economist at The World Bank, a scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a staff economist at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.