29% of Minnesota Locations Received No Bids For BEAD

Minnesota’s “Benefit of the Bargain” round received ten fewer applications from fiber providers and left 22,000 locations without any bids. “There are about 22,000 of the 76,000 eligible locations that did not receive a first-round bid,” explained Minnesota Office of Broadband Development Executive Director Bree Maki. “We lost ten applications from fiber providers because of it—and rightfully so. This is confusing.”