Funding & Grants
New Mexico signs first BEAD grant agreement: $27m for Kit Carson fibre build
Photo: Matt Walter (CC BY 2.0)
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Funding & Grants
Michigan signs BEAD contracts with 23 ISPs in $916m broadband funding plan
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Funding & Grants
Nevada pulls back $52 million from rural broadband projects
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Funding & Grants
Louisiana breaks ground on country's largest BEAD-funded broadband build
Photo: Stealth Communications
Funding & Grants
Shapiro announces $448 million in BEAD awards for Pennsylvania broadband
Photo: Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority
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Explainers
How the BEAD Challenge Process Works — and Why It Decided Who Gets Funded
Photo: Lance Cheung / U.S. Department of Agriculture
Explainers
What "Unserved" and "Underserved" Mean — the Two Words That Decide BEAD Funding
Photo: USDA Rural Development / Wikimedia Commons
Explainers
BEAD vs RDOF vs CAF vs ReConnect: How America's Four Big Broadband Programmes Differ
Photo: USDA Rural Development / Wikimedia Commons
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Funding & Grants
Indiana signs $400m+ BEAD contracts with 24 ISPs to connect 122,000 homes
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Policy & Regulation
Senators press NTIA over long-delayed BEAD non-deployment funding guidance
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Funding & Grants
BEAD enters 'cleanup phase' as NTIA prepares supplemental round for missed locations
Photo: NTIA
Funding & Grants
State broadband chiefs say BEAD 'true-up' round leaves gaps it can't fill
Photo: AP via Broadband Breakfast
Funding & Grants
Washington signs first seven BEAD contracts in $165m push to connect 122,000 homes
Photo: Focue
Policy & Regulation
Trump administration's BEAD overhaul aided SpaceX, telecom analyst Blair Levin says
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Funding & Grants
Colorado cancels $103 million BEAD award to Maverix after finding misuse of funds
Photo: Profpcde
Funding & Grants
Nearly one in three co-ops turning down BEAD money, NRECA tells Lutnick
Photo: Preston Keres
Explainers
What Is BEAD? The $42.45 Billion Plan to Connect Every American
Photo: Tony Webster / Wikimedia Commons
Funding & Grants
NTIA opens a second BEAD round: states can spend leftover billions on missed locations
Photo: Broadband Breakfast
Funding & Grants
West Virginia backs $100M+ Armstrong fibre push for 10,000 rural homes and businesses
Photo: TD&I Cable Maintenance
Funding & Grants
Indiana electric co-op wins $13.2M BEAD grant for fibre across four counties
Photo: Rural Missouri