By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 6-26-23
The Biden Administration has figured out where it will be allocating $42.45 billion in Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program subsidy money among the states and territories.
Legislators were already touting their states’ shares even as the funding allocation was being announced.
Congress provided $65 billion in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for broadband infrastructure. The National Technology and Information Administration (NTIA) is overseeing $48.2 billion of that, mostly going to states via the BEAD program. No state got less than $100 million and more than a third – 19 states – got over a billion dollars. » Read More