A wild year for broadband: Reviewing our top 10 2025 stories
Year in Review From a BEAD stoppage to DEI drama, 2025 was a wild year for broadband. Broadband...
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Category: Funding
Wecom Fiber collects largest BEAD award in Arizona
News Wecom said the money will be used to connect more than 66,000 homes and businesses across 17...
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It’s undeniable. Elon Musk won big from BEAD’s revised guidance
News Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won big from the government’s revised BEAD guidance. They...
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How are your taxes being spent? This BEAD tracker lets you see
News There’s a lot of BEAD data to breakdown, but Connected Nation’s BEAD Tracker...
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California hopes to leave few crumbs on the BEAD table
News California wants to spend a larger share of their BEAD allocation than many other states, as...
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9 more states get BEAD plan approvals from NTIA
News A total of 26 states and territories have had their Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment...
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Texas wins NTIA approval on their final BEAD proposal
News The Lone Star State has won approval for their final BEAD proposal from the National...
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NTIA approves 18 final BEAD proposals; Louisiana gets green light
News Louisiana will be able to access BEAD funds after the first batch of NTIA approvals to...
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NTIA pushes to reduce “red tape” around tribal broadband
News An announcement from the NTIA says the agency is embarking on a new push to streamline tribal...
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New Mexico’s OBAE continues push for rural, tribal connectivity
News The New Mexico program provides assistance awards of up to $100,000 without a competitive...
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NTIA admin hints at use for non-deployment BEAD funds
News NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth has hinted at a potential use for unspent BEAD funds, also...
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Arielle Roth outlines new requirement for BEAD providers
News Arielle Roth, speaking last week at The Hudson Institute, outlined a new requirement for...
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Bandwidth Hawk: Fiber continues to dominate BEAD deployments
Bandwidth Hawk With proposed deployment plans now mostly submitted, fiber is still a big winner in...
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Indiana Connectivity Program announces awardees for 15th round
News The 15th round of the Indiana Connectivity Program has yielded over $650,000 in grant awards...
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Lyte Fiber named as preliminary recipient of BEAD funds in Texas
News Lyte Fiber has been preliminarily selected for $142 million in Texas BEAD funding to expand...
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NDIA sues to reverse Trump decision to cancel Digital Equity Act
News The NDIA is suing to reinstate the Digital Equity Act Competitive Grant Program, which they...
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Bandwidth Hawk: Will 100×20 Mbps be enough in 2035? Hell no!
Bandwidth Hawk AI will continue to stimulate demand in ways we have yet to grapple with, or even...
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Gary Bolton: Building beyond BEAD’s Benefit of the BargainĀ
Viewpoints BEAD’s Benefit of the Bargain round is just the beginning of multi-generation...
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Broadband Communities releases the 2025 Top 100 list
Top 100 The 2025 Broadband Communities Top 100 includes companies, entities, and organizations...
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Surf Internet is top-awarded ISP in 14th round of Indiana program
Press Release The company received $177,600 to extend high-speed fiber-optic internet to 37...
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