Garland T. McCoy
VP Legislation and Development
Garland has over three decades of communications network policy experience spanning the transition from the Telco’s heavily regulated analog “Nortel” signal switching system to the digital packet Internet routing/soft switching platform. Highlights of his activities during this time include:
• Member of the team that brought the first undersea fiber cable to East Africa;
• Organized and hosted unique workshops at the annual UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) for 12 years, contributing to its “Policy Options for Connecting the Next Billion” intercessional work
• Member of Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP)
• Participated in workshops and proceedings as part of the FCC’s E-Rate Modernization Program for Schools and Libraries
• Filed Ex Parte Presentations and Comments under the FCC’s NOPR specifically addressing the FCC’s prohibition on non-traditional voice telecommunication service companies.
Garland is also considered the “Father” of BITAG (Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group). He served as chief organizer of 15 Aspen Summit conferences focusing on Internet policy. He served as the sponsor and organizer of educational tours for Congressional staff, Administration officials, and embassy officials of Visa’s NOC (Network Operations Center), Equinix’s Global Peering Center, Verizon’s NOC, and other data centers.
Garland has significant experience in association fundraising and building corporate sponsorships for association programming, conferences, and activities.
In recent years Garland has studied licensed and unlicensed spectrum technologies and their applications in such areas as managing the sensor data traffic needed for precision agriculture through the deployment of RTK-PNT networks. He has become involved in broadband mapping methodology with a keen focus on standards and transparency in an effort to drive resources to rural America and shrink the urban/suburban broadband access divide.
Garland has served as Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University’s iSchool, teaching a course on information policy and decision-making. He has held positions on Capitol Hill, in the White House, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Pentagon.