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03/10/2026
BEAD Bargaining: A $21 Billion AI Question Looms
It continues to be hurry-up-and-wait when it comes to NTIA’s guidance for the estimated $21 billion in BEAD non-deployment funds up for grabs. But Democrats are hoping to get some answers sooner rather than later.
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03/05/2026
Spending BEAD’s Remaining $21B
As everyone waits to hear what NTIA plans to do with the estimated $21 billion in nondeployment funds for BEAD, providers at ACA Connects were relieved to hear it sounds like the money will stay within the states originally awarded the funding.
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02/13/2026
NCTA Chief Gardner’s Not-So-Subtle Plea
With a few months under his belt as NCTA President/CEO, we’re getting a bit of a feel for Cory Gardner’s leadership style.
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02/11/2026
BEAD Funding Free-for-All
When $21 billion is up for grabs, a lot of folks are going to put their hands out.
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02/05/2026
BEAD Update: Where Non-Deployment Dollars Should Go & the Starlink Question
With the Trump administration’s restructuring of the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program and “Benefit of the Bargain” reforms, the initiative is expected to have about $21 billion in leftover funds. How will that money be spent?
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12/09/2025
State Lawmakers Want All BEAD Money
More than 160 bipartisan state legislators from 28 states signed a letter urging U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Assistant Secretary Arielle Roth to allow states to use their full BEAD allocations.