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Last verified: 11 October 2026. Where the US$42.45bn BEAD programme's money is going — one row per subaward, each with its source. This is a structured, citable feed, not a headline count: every row carries a named source you can check.

Dataset release 2026.10.11.1 — schema v1.0.0, 123 rows, Texas + Louisiana + North Dakota + Washington + Pennsylvania, US$2,143,952,902 across 435,963 locations promised. Machine-readable copies: CSV · JSON · release notes.

Prefer a ranked view? Our first quarterly data story charts the 25 biggest published awards with a downloadable CSV. Prefer a searchable view? The same release also powers the county awards database — every award in one filterable table with a county/parish column. For the full history behind these awards, see the BEAD timeline: 2021–2026. For the numbers over time, see the BEAD accountability time-series — one cumulative snapshot per dataset release.

Texas — final subgrantee awards

Seventeen provider-level final BEAD subgrantee agreements, announced by the Texas Broadband Development Office around 3 June 2026 and reported on 4 June 2026 — US$1,067,572,760 across 208,873 locations. Verification: press report (re-verified 11 October 2026). The Texas BDO has not published an official final award list or a county breakdown, so these rows are not presented as an official record — each is transcribed from a trade-press report that quotes the BDO, with that report linked per row. Rows older than 90 days without re-verification are retired from the published feed.

Note: in August 2026 the Texas Comptroller paused all BEAD disbursements pending an audit (reported by Fierce Network). The awards below remain awarded; disbursement timing may change.

Subgrantee Amount Locations Technology Verification Source
360 Broadband LLC US$16,071,631 2,716 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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4 IP Technology and Media LLC, d.b.a. Nexstream US$401,831,807 32,404 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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AMG Technology Investment Group LLC, d.b.a. Nextlink Internet US$42,161,852 34,417 Fixed wireless Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Aristotle Unified Communications Inc. US$56,914,449 10,795 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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AT&T Services Inc., on behalf of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. LLC US$32,196,465 6,653 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Charter Communications, d.b.a. Spectrum US$47,810,536 7,830 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Connect Holding II LLC, d.b.a. Brightspeed US$24,396,727 6,574 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Frontier Southwest Inc./Verizon US$59,185,393 8,259 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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IBT Group USA LLC US$2,300,708 1,264 Fixed wireless Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Lucky Fiber US$4,469,117 1,447 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Lyte Fiber LLC US$115,992,900 9,666 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Plains Internet US$96,116,680 13,055 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Rural Telecommunications of America Inc. US$15,803,008 3,314 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., d.b.a. Starlink Services LLC US$108,787,903 63,887 Satellite Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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USConnect Holdings Inc., d.b.a. Livingston Telephone Co. US$36,634,389 3,928 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Valor Telecommunications of Texas LLC, d.b.a. Uniti US$4,778,788 2,403 Fibre Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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VTX Communications LLC US$2,120,407 261 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Amounts are awards as published, not money disbursed. County-level splits have not been published for Texas, so rows are provider-level. Subgrantee names are copied exactly as published.

Louisiana — announced Benefit-of-the-Bargain awards

Twelve provider-level BEAD awards announced by ConnectLA (Louisiana's broadband office) under the post-restructure "Benefit of the Bargain" round — US$498,296,587 across 126,798 locations promised. The round is documented in Louisiana's BEAD Final Proposal v7.0 (18 November 2025), which incorporates the June 2025 federal restructuring. Verification: press report (re-verified 11 October 2026). The per-provider amounts below are transcribed from a trade-press report of the state's announcement, linked per row — the Final Proposal's narrative confirms the round and its results (~$500m for about 127,000 locations) but does not publish per-provider figures in its text, and no county breakdown or per-provider technology split has been published. These rows are not presented as an official award list; they carry status "announced" rather than "awarded".

Note: the state's announced total of $499,079,587 includes a $783,000 line for 1,044 "potential additional" LEO locations that are explicitly not yet awarded — that line is excluded from the rows below and from the totals. The state's initial (pre-restructure) recommendations of $748m for 139,677 locations were superseded by this round.

Subgrantee Amount Locations Technology Verification Source
Louisiana Local Fiber Consortium US$378,042,581 68,535 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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AT&T US$21,507,805 19,784 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Nextlink US$18,490,698 7,460 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Cajun Broadband US$18,203,892 4,067 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Comcast Cable Communications LLC US$16,233,318 6,561 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Direct Communications US$10,000,000 1,504 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Conexon Connect LLC US$9,349,697 3,443 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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SpaceX US$7,745,250 10,327 Satellite Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Brightspeed US$5,751,955 2,609 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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SkyRider Communications LLC US$5,418,804 718 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Pelican Broadband US$4,022,689 1,232 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Coushatta Tribe of LA US$3,529,898 558 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Amounts are awards as announced, not money disbursed. The state reports roughly 80% of locations will get fibre and 9% LEO satellite, but no per-provider technology split has been published — rows without a published technology are labelled accordingly. Subgrantee names are copied exactly as published.

North Dakota — finalized subgrantee awards

Two finalized BEAD subgrantee contracts, announced by the North Dakota Information Technology department (NDIT) in early May 2026 — US$6,133,968 across 279 locations promised. Verification: official document (checked 11 October 2026). The figures are transcribed from an official North Dakota Legislative Management presentation (November 2025) recording the NTIA-approved sub-awards; NDIT announced the finalized contracts with both providers on 6 May 2026 (reported by Broadband Communities). No county breakdown or per-provider technology split has been published — NDIT describes the state's BEAD projects as primarily fiber — so rows are provider-level and labelled accordingly. With 279 locations, this is the smallest state award list published so far.

Subgrantee Amount Locations Technology Verification Source
BEK Communications Cooperative US$5,942,467 257 Mixed / not published per provider Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Midco US$191,501 22 Mixed / not published per provider Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Amounts are awards as published, not money disbursed. One published figure carries cents (BEK: $5,942,467.35) and is stored in whole dollars. Subgrantee names are copied exactly as published.

Washington — first-wave signed subgrantee contracts

Seven signed BEAD subgrantee contracts, announced by the Washington State Broadband Office (~24–25 September 2026) — US$123,940,313 across 28,451 locations promised. Verification: press report (checked 11 October 2026). The figures are transcribed from Telecompetitor’s report of the WSBO’s announced contract chart; the state has not published an official machine-readable award list. These are the first seven of 26 winners — contracts with the remaining 19 were still unsigned at publication, with a state signing deadline of 8 October 2026, so this section will grow as new contracts are announced. Per-provider technology has not been published (the state reports 21,858 wireless and 6,594 fibre locations across the seven in aggregate), and only the four largest awards are broken out by county — the three smaller awards serve Tribal communities.

Subgrantee County / service area Amount Locations Technology Verification Source
Broadlinc Spokane US$65,200,000 9,840 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Declaration Networks Group, Inc. Ferry, Skagit, Stevens, Whatcom US$24,100,000 9,950 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Concept Communications, LLC Okanogan US$18,100,000 4,780 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Kitsap PUD Kitsap US$15,000,000 3,770 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Spokane Tribe Tribal (Spokane Tribe service area) US$947,717 76 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Lummi Indian Business Council Tribal (Lummi Nation) US$536,596 27 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Hood Canal Communications Tribal (Skokomish Tribe service area) US$56,000 8 Mixed / not published per provider Press report
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Amounts are awards as announced, not money disbursed. The state said the seven contracts total about US$165.1m including roughly US$41.2m in matching funds from state, private and other sources (project totals above are BEAD funding only); the three Tribal-award figures are exact, the four larger awards are rounded by the source, and the rows sum to US$123,940,313 against the state’s announced ~US$123.9m. Subgrantee names are copied exactly as published.

Pennsylvania — finalized subgrantee awards

Nine providers with finalized BEAD agreements, announced by the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority (PBDA) on 2 October 2026 — US$448,009,274 across 71,562 locations promised. Verification: official document (checked 11 October 2026). The figures are transcribed from PBDA’s official “Program Awards | as of October 1, 2026” award table, which publishes per-provider totals with the counties each award covers — but not a per-county split of amounts or locations. So each award is stored as one row per county (85 rows) sharing a group id, with the per-row amounts and locations left blank rather than estimated; the provider totals below are the state’s published figures. Subgrantee names are copied exactly as published.

Note: the PBDA’s 2 October announcement prose cites a Verizon award of $28.85m for ~3,000 locations (a Centre + Mifflin counties project), while the award table lists Verizon Pennsylvania / Verizon North at $88,753,721 for 10,409 locations across 15 counties — the table is transcribed here as the authoritative award list, and the discrepancy is logged in the dataset’s coverage notes.

Subgrantee Counties Amount Locations Technology Verification Source
Central Bradford Progress Authority Bradford, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming US$73,574,097 6,457 Mixed / not published per provider Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Centre WISP Venture Company Centre, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder, Union US$10,298,757 1,861 Fibre Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Commonwealth Telephone Company d/b/a Frontier Communications Bradford, Chester, Lancaster, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wyoming US$16,651,639 2,407 Fibre Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Connect Holdings d/b/a Brightspeed Adams, Bedford, Blair, Centre, Clinton, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lancaster, Mifflin, Perry, York US$41,710,873 9,078 Fibre Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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CoreConnect (CocoNet Inc.) Cameron, Clarion, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango, Warren US$90,661,771 10,327 Fibre Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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eCommunity Holdings Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Columbia, Huntingdon, Indiana, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Somerset, Union US$84,164,947 14,571 Fibre Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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IBT Group USA Chester, Crawford, Erie, Fayette, Franklin, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lycoming, Mercer, Somerset, Venango, Warren US$39,684,764 15,283 Fixed wireless Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Upward Broadband Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Mifflin US$2,508,705 1,169 Fixed wireless Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Verizon Pennsylvania/Verizon North Allegheny, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Columbia, Jefferson, Lehigh, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, Pike, Wayne US$88,753,721 10,409 Fibre Official document
last checked 11 Oct 2026
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Amounts are the state’s published provider totals, not money disbursed, and not prorated across counties — per-county splits have not been published. Central Bradford’s award mixes fibre and fixed wireless as published. The table sums to US$448,009,274 across 71,562 locations, matching the PBDA’s stated programme total.

Coverage and what’s next

Watch checked 11 October 2026. Pennsylvania’s nine finalized agreements are the tracker’s latest extraction (US$448.0m BEAD, 71,562 locations — see the Pennsylvania section above), transcribed from PBDA’s official award table. Washington: still only the seven first-wave signed contracts — the 8 October 2026 subgrant deadline for the remaining 19 winners is now three days past, with neither a second wave nor miss-reporting surfacing yet. California: the end-September acceptance deadline is now ~15 days past in public silence — no signature, no confirmed 30-day extension, no missed-deadline reporting; the Condition 50 net-neutrality dispute remains the freshest coverage. Indiana: still only 6 of 24 executed agreements posted, no per-provider amounts. North Carolina: the state’s caveat is unchanged: “All awards are contingent until they are contracted by the division in 2026” — our 207-row “Approved BEAD Awards” fetch stays archived until contracting is confirmed. NTIA Round 2: no public per-state supplemental location lists — states have yet to receive them (NTIA is waiting on FCC June-2026 coverage data; “may not see it until sometime in November, perhaps”). Florida: FloridaCommerce documents still label the winners “provisional awardees” (Post-Award FAQs v22, 30 June 2026); no executed contracts announced. Missouri: still “Provisional Awardee” / “Provisional Award” on the state’s BEAD page (NTIA approved its final proposal on 6 January 2026).

Also on watch: Alabama (“preliminarily approved” projects, contract development under way — no new contracting confirmation), Michigan (still provisional; press reports say contracts were signed in August, but the state has not relabelled its list), Virginia and Georgia (both still “provisional BEAD awards” — press reports say Virginia signed agreements with 19 of its 22 winners in early August, but the state has not relabelled its list).

Rows land here as soon as verifiable lists publish; the plan is to expand toward the top-10 BEAD-allocation states over the coming weeks. Disputed, paused, or restated awards keep their row and their history — restatements get a new row linked from the old one, never a silent edit. The primary documents behind these figures — final proposals, NTIA approvals, broadband-office releases — live in our BEAD public-documents archive. Spotted something wrong or missing? Tell us — corrections are logged publicly on our corrections log. Our data discipline is set out in the methodology page.