Faulkner Consulting, LLC
Engineering and program leadership for the infrastructure small communities depend on.
Three decades delivering broadband, wireless, and mission-critical communications programs across Texas and the United States — from rural last-mile fiber to large interoperable public-safety radio systems.
Service areas
Six practices, one continuous track record.
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Rural Broadband Programs
Planning, funding, and program management for last-mile broadband serving small Texas cities and counties.
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Cellular & Wireless
Site acquisition, civil and structural design, and construction management for cellular networks — PCS through 5G.
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Public Safety
Engineering and construction management for P25 public-safety radio, LMR, and FirstNet — built when failure is not an option.
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Civil & Structural
Licensed civil and structural engineering for telecommunications and land development across Texas.
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Grant Funding
Grant authoring and funding-stack strategy for broadband and infrastructure — EDA, ARPA, BEAD, foundation, and private capital.
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GIS & Geospatial
Mapping, GIS analysis, and field-data workflows that turn geography into decisions clients can defend.
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Track record
Built to work the first time.
Rural broadband
Last-mile FTTP for Monahans & Ward County, Texas — 6-mile metro Ethernet loop with 30-mile distribution, serving more than 2,000 residents and businesses. $3.2M in program funding raised, including a $1.5M EDA grant.
Public-safety radio
Civil infrastructure for 50 sites supporting more than 20,000 radio users — the City of Houston 700 MHz P25 Phase II system, the first large-scale 700 MHz P25 Phase II deployment in the United States.
Wireless infrastructure
More than 5,000 telecommunications sites supported across the U.S. and Canada since the first PRIMECO PCS site went live on the IH-35 corridor in 1996.
Policy & legislation
Authored Texas HB 2964, sponsored by Representative Landgraf, to correct the broadband-mapping issues affecting BEAD eligibility. Left pending in committee; re-filing for the 2027 session.
Working on an infrastructure program?
Reach out — broadband planning, telecom siting, public-safety communications, grant strategy, or GIS support.
cfaulkner@ngioe.com