As a vital component of national infrastructure, fiber optics improve data transmission, economic stability, and public ...

The Senate removed the AI moratorium provision from the reconciliation bill in a 99–1 vote early Tuesday morning. Sen. Marsha ...

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) previously criticized Cruz’s reconciliation language, claiming the provision “forces states receiving BEAD funding to choose between expanding broadband or ...

Perhaps the biggest change to the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment, or BEAD, program concerns what technology will be prioritized. The program originally favored expanding fiber ...

Washington utilities, tribes, counties and others have spent years planning how to use the state’s $1.2 billion chunk of a federal program to improve high-speed internet access. But earlier this ...

Perhaps the biggest change to the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment, or BEAD, program concerns what technology will be prioritized.

Door County Broadband Coordinator Jessica Hatch said by email that many local municipalities – including Brussels, Ephraim, Forestville, Gardner, Liberty Grove, Nasewaupee, and Union – were relying on ...

Two years ago, the federal government announced Montana would be eligible for more than $600 million dollars in funding through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment, or BEAD, program.

Broadband providers that win BEAD awards can now satisfy the law’s requirement to “ ensure reliability and resilience of broadband infrastructure” by establishing risk management plans that ...

On Monday, June 16, the Garfield County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a letter to Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Colo., urging federal agencies to avoid restructuring the Broadband Equity, Access, ...

Investigate and account for locations that are not eligible for BEAD funding because: (1) the locations are shown as served under the latest version of the FCC Broadband Data Collection map; (2 ...