The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development released the state's draft Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program Final Proposal. Public comments will be accepted through September 3, 2025, and can be submitted via this form. The final proposal includes $377,046,315 in funding to 24 internet service providers, covering 74,668 locations. If approved, 39 percent of locations will be covered by fiber, 27 percent will be covered by low-earth orbit satellite, 18 percent will be covered by fixed wireless, and 16 percent will be covered by other technologies. 

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. Provisional subgrantee providers are Comcast, Consolidated Communications, DVFiber, Maple Broadband, NEK Broadband, SpaceX, and Vermont Telephone. Almost 90% of the federal BEAD funds will go to build out fiber, about 6% will go to satellite, and the remaining 4% will go to hybrid fiber coaxial cable. The VT-BEAD Draft Final Proposal is posted along with a public comment form. It will be open for public comment until September 4, when it will be submitted to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).