2025-11-17T09:13:09-08:00 2024-12-31 942329070 John Waddell & Co CPAs 3416 American River Drive A Sacramento CA 95864 990 2024-01-01 770389415 The Broadband Forum BROA 5104924022 39221 Paseo Padre Pkwy Suite J Fremont CA 94538 Craig Thomas CEO 2025-11-17 true true Deborah F Ask CPA P00052634 9164882460 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Craig Thomas 39221 Paseo Padre Pkwy Suite J Fremont CA 94538 2382594 false X www.broadband-forum.org X 1994 CA The Broadband Forum charts the future of communication networks, which are improving lifestyles throughout the world. 12 12 4 12 0 0 2329222 2276092 68084 106502 0 2397306 2382594 0 0 700079 693004 0 0 1325456 1294012 2025535 1987016 371771 395578 3988696 4586887 1064321 1182817 2924375 3404070 X The Broadband Forum is the central organization driving broadband wireline solutions and empowering converged packet networks worldwide to better meet the needs of vendors, service providers and their customers. true false Broadband Industry Standards and Certification Work: Published 29 Technical Reports, standards and marketing reports for the broadband industry. Made available 3 separate industry wide software Open Source releases. Created 2 new industry Open Source initiatives. In addition the Broadband Forum membership initiated 10 new areas of work (NPIFs) for review and member contributions to become industry standards. Industry Education: There were 23 BASe industry education events, including webinars, conference face-to-face workshops and a multi-day industry summit in Germany and Europe. In total over 2,500 industry decision markers and influencers attended our education events. Member Meetings: 3 separate member meetings were held in 2024. Spring in Germany, Summer in South Korea and Fall in USA. In total circa 500 member representative registrations were achieved for our member meetings either person or virtually. 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The Broadband Forum restructured its Member meetings to 100s of regular interim remote calendared work calls but only three face-to-face member meetings (previously 4) in 2024. These member meetings were held in Europe, Asia, and USA.The Broadband Forum also sun-setted its work on TR-069, Broadband CPE device management, and continues to put major work focus on its successor TR-369, which is a multi-device management tool including devices behind the consumer or business CPE device. While our standards and certification work for TR-069 are still valid, all future development is now focused on TR-369, User Services Platform. In 2024 we also included an industry-wide education event to be held in parallel with one of our Face-to-face member meetings. This education event, branded BASe Summit attracted over 200 participants.In addition, we also created two new open source initiatives (OB_CAS and OB-STAMP) to create open source software to support and complement our standards work. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 3 The roles of account manager, and coordinator/bookkeeper are contractedwith Association Management Solutions, LLC. AMS's services include front office andadministration, membership services, financial management, and meeting andconference planning. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 There are three types of members, Principal, Auditing, and Associate. Only Principal members have voting rights. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b A copy of Form 990 is provided to governing body to review before it is filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c All are required to sign regarding their compliance with the policy annually. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a A subcommittee of the Board reviews the job scope and responsibilities and compares them to other comparable positions. For new contracts a formal RFP process is followed, which is outlined in the EO's policies. Compensation review of senior staff is undertaken annually by the board of Directors, with formal review and comparables used. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b A formal RFP process is used as outlined in the EO's policies. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Policies and procedures are published on the website. The bylaws, antitrust guidelines, and Independent Test Lab Program Guidelines are available to the general public. Other policies and procedures require a member login.