Following a June 6 announcement from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that restructured the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program, all states and territories have been tasked with reevaluating their plans to connect un- and underserved locations to high-speed internet.
Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) released the Vermont Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program (VT-BEAD) Draft Final Proposal, which is the state’s plan to accomplish the goal of enabling all Vermonters to have access to high-speed reliable broadband. Vermont’s BEAD allocation is almost $229 million. The VT-BEAD Draft Final Proposal lists the provisional grantees of those funds and what technology they plan to use to serve all remaining unserved and underserved addresses in their project areas. The bids included in the Draft Final Proposal total $179,426,004.96.
Friday, August 29, 2025
The Iowa Department of Management released the state's draft Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program Final Proposal on August 28. The public comment period will be open through September 3, 2025. Comments can be submitted via this form. The final proposal includes $221,282,630 in funding to cover 42,933 locations.
The Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program provides funding for broadband infrastructure and the preparation of a plan by each Eligible Entity (state) for how to achieve "Internet for All". Federal BEAD program funding for broadband infrastructure deployment included a minimum of $100 million for each state. Allocations to each state above the initial funding were announced on June 26, 2023. Minnesota will receive a total of $651,839,368.
NatWest and Lloyds are among the big banks braced for losses on billions of pounds in loans to troubled UK broadband providers, as the weakest players in the nascent fibre sector battle mounting financial pressure. Dozens of “altnets”—alternative network providers—have tried to challenge the dominance of BT’s Openreach and Virgin Media O2 but many are struggling to attract enough customers to meet the costs of their network rollout and have been hit by higher interest rates.
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