All articles from Adam Schmehl

Getting Ahead On Pole Data Collection Projects

Adam Schmehl September 24, 2020

This article was co-written with Katapult's Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Bryden. A few months ago, Andrew and I were discussing the nuance ...

5 Components Of Successful Rural Broadband Deployment

Adam Schmehl September 03, 2020

A few weeks ago, one of my industry friends posted a survey asking what factors have the biggest impact on rural broadband deployment. On the list ...

A Noble Cause: Rural Broadband

Adam Schmehl August 03, 2020

Unless you just woke up from cryogenic sleep, you know that our work, education, relationships, and entertainment are leaning pretty heavily on the ...

Digital Transformation for Pole Attachments

Adam Schmehl June 24, 2020

My favorite question to answer is one that my team is asked by family and friends all the time: "what exactly do you do?" The reason I love this ...

Virtual Rideouts For Pole Attachments

Adam Schmehl June 01, 2020

If your team is anything like ours, not being in the office together is taking its toll. We've been trying to push collaboration and fun even while ...

Photo Management for Pole Data Collection

Adam Schmehl May 15, 2020

Your field crew collected 2,400 photos yesterday across 180 poles. They're sitting in camera memory cards and phone galleries right now, waiting to ...

Katapult Pro OTMR Applications (2010)

Adam Schmehl April 27, 2020

A few months ago, we wrote an article about how the Katapult Pro platform can be leveraged to improve the third-party and joint-use pole attachments ...

Katapult Pro's 4 Key Principles

Adam Schmehl April 20, 2020

The development of Katapult Pro began many years before our first client came on board and long before considered ourselves a software development ...

Leveraging One-Touch Make Ready For Pole Attachments

Adam Schmehl April 16, 2020

In our last article, we mentioned that most pole attachment applications have some degree of electrical make ready required, which typically means ...

One-Touch Make Ready Update (2020)

Adam Schmehl April 06, 2020

It's now April, which means that we've had almost a year of OTMR in FCC-regulated states. As many predicted, it hasn't been the silver bullet that ...

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