Carroll Faulkner | Engineer
Faulkner Consulting LLC

Carroll Faulkner, P.E., grew up in Pecos — the little West Texas town that hosted the world's first rodeo in 1883. The places he works today look a lot like the place he came from: small towns where "just call the major carrier" isn't an answer. For more than twenty years he's been planning, funding, designing, and overseeing the construction of last-mile broadband infrastructure for rural Texas communities — from the Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast. As founder of Faulkner Consulting, LLC, he's the engineer cities and counties call when fiber, wireless, or both have to work in places the big telcos walked away from. Recent work includes Port Aransas, Winkler County, Monahans/Ward County, and Snyder. He's a past president of TSPE Austin, ACEC Austin, and the Austin Consulting Engineers Association, and he authored Texas legislation aimed at fixing broadband mapping errors that affect BEAD eligibility.