The funding for BEAD is part of the major infrastructure law passed by the Biden Administration. Despite the possibility that the Infrastructure Act or parts of it may get repealed next year by the incoming Trump Administration, it is widely expected that BEAD will go forward since a significant portion of the funding is aimed at achieving broadband access in rural/ex-urban areas that are part of Republican-leaning districts so it is anticipated that the Congress members from those districts will want to keep those dollars and related new fiber networks flowing to their constituents.
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All States Now Approved For Feds' Broadband Program
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All 50 states and five participating territories have gotten the sign off from the NTIA three years after Congress created the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the U.S. Department of Commerce is celebrating what it's calling a "major milestone." ... BEAD is a $42.5 billion program aimed at helping close the digital divide and funding infrastructure projects and planning in the 50 states. The states will receive the money and then be responsible for doling it out to the companies, or subgrantees, that will carry out the project.
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