Articles about Industry (4)

How to Hire Great OSP Designers

Adam Schmehl September 11, 2024

Our Methodology Katapult Pro was built to help healthy teams scale quickly. This means our solutions need to help brand-new employees become valuable ...

Pole Inspections: Protecting Poles

Ashlyn Stonge September 04, 2024

The strength of the grid depends a great deal on the quality and resiliency of wooden structures to keep the lights on and people safe.

Evaluating Satellite Broadband (2022)

Ashlyn Stonge September 14, 2022

Over the past few years, the FCC has revised its broadband deployment strategy to include satellite-provided internet. This article seeks to give a ...

3D Scanning for Pole Attachment Services

Ashlyn Stonge June 06, 2022

This article was written by Alex D’Amico as part of an internship project to re-investigate 3D scanning technology to evaluate situations where it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adopting The Katapult Pro Workflow

Adam Schmehl February 19, 2020

One of the hardest parts of changing your field and office workflow is the initial cost of learning something new. It's not unique to our ...

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