June 22, 2026: Findings from Telecompetitor’s State of AI in Rural Broadband study

Hello and welcome.

You're listening to the Broadband Exchange, the podcast from your friends at Telecompetitor.

I'm Ian Descher, Pivot's Director of Media and Story and Managing Editor of Telecompetitor.

I'm on vacation, so rather than the news roundup, we're bringing you something a little different this week.

Recently, Telecompetitor completed a study on the state of AI in rural broadband.

132 broadband companies participated in the study, and we presented some of our findings in a webinar on June 10th.

Today, I'm bringing you a snippet of that webinar.

First, you'll hear from Steve Baseflug, Senior Insights Manager at Pivot.

And then he'll hand it off to Dave Neustraden, who's the CEO of Telecompetitor and Pivot.

Let's get into it.