Connected Nation unveils the BEAD Tracker: An interactive tool that tracks federal broadband funding disbursements

Connected Nation unveiled its new interactive dashboard, the BEAD Tracker. The dashboard provides easy access to states’ plans for spending federal funds that were allocated through the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program’s Benefit of the Bargain round. The BEAD Tracker compiles and aggregates state BEAD final proposals, highlighting how each state and U.S. territory intends to use its allocated federal BEAD dollars. That includes the total number of locations that will be served in each state, the distribution of the kind of broadband technology being funded, and how many locations will be served by each internet service provider. In addition to seeing national statistics, the BEAD Tracker allows users to view information for individual states, as well as by broadband platform and even by individual ISPs.