Sep. 8 at 12:51 PM
$CLFD Finally, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has decided what to do with the remaining Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funds. Congress originally allocated
$42.5 billion toward BEAD. But after Trump modified the program, and NTIA recently approved the BEAD final proposals of all 56 states and territories, there remains about
$21 billion in left-over funds.
We have been calling these left-over monies “non-deployment funds.” But that term is no longer appropriate because NTIA says it will allow states and territories to conduct a new round of funding to use these monies for further broadband deployment.
The funds can be applied toward newly identified under served locations that were not previously included in the FCC’s broadband map.
This is noteworthy. Even Cheri stated that BEAD would only amount to
$21B. It now appears the other
$21B is back on the table.
