ISE Magazine, December 2019

DECEMBER 2019 WWW ISEMAG COM 11 VISIONARIES ROUNDTABLE The ICT Visionaries attending ISE EXPO 2019 Roundtable Daniel Ashton Senior Engineer Electrical Protection ICEP CenturyLink Scot Bohaychyk Manager Product Marketing Clearfield Jeff Chapman EVP Operations NorthState Communications Ben Goth Vice President of Network Services TDS Telecom Ashley Travers Director of Network Engineering and Operations Verizon Topic NETWORK EVOLUTION PAINS Sharon Vollman ISE Magazine What is your biggest pain point across the wireline and wireless networks How can the industry help solve it Ben Goth TDS Telecom Nobody has any pain laughter Ashley Travers Verizon Nope No pain laughter Ben Goth TDS Telecom We face quite a few pain points at TDS We keep running into inconsistencies across multiple pole owners networks and municipalities in the way they will allow construction or permitting That causes a significant amount of delay additional costs and the inability to proceed on a reasonable schedule So its hard to keep timelines and to deliver things we commit to when other groups we partner with have different desires for timelines or outcomes Thats for sure one of our major pain points over the last several years ISE Will One Touch Make Ready or OTMR help Ben Goth TDS Telecom I think the FCC ruling was a good step because it puts together some standards associated with the amount of time the pole companies have to deal with us and how timely they should respond However theres nothing in the order that says what if they dont adhere to the timing While I think its a good step in the right direction theres still nothing that can force those companies to do anything on a specific timeline And weve had situations where they only have one person or limited staff taking the applications and been told The company can only process so many of these applications at a time And that there is no plan to add staff to process the influx of applications So you can send in as many as you want but youll only get back as many as can be processed by the available staff at the pace they can get them completed Network Executives Gathered at ISE EXPO 2019 Share Pain Points and Passions Ben Goth Vice President of Network Services TDS Telecom