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      <title>Nearly one in three co-ops turning down BEAD money, NRECA tells Lutnick</title>
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      <description>NRECA says 63 co-operatives won BEAD funding in 27 states, but nearly one in three have pulled out — with one co-op's US-made fibre prices jumping 40% in August alone.</description>
      <author>James Calloway</author>
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