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The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed internet access by funding planning, infrastructure deployment, and adoption programs in all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

It is a once-in-a-generation funding opportunity to promote high-speed internet access for underserved and unversed communities. It’s aim is to bridge the digital divide by providing resources to state, local, and tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and for-profit companies to support the deployment and expansion of broadband infrastructure

Successful grand applications will prioritize projects that address equity issues such as impious broadband access for low-income households, rural areas and communities of color.

Below you can take a look at the timeline for BEAD. Read more about NTIA’s  workforce planning guide  aimed at helping individual states in establishing workforce requirements involving the program here.

Source https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/funding-programs/broadband-equity-access-and-deployment-bead-program

How much bandwidth do subscribers actually need? And can the digital divide be closed even in a country with one of the most unequal distributions of wealth and income in the world? Watch the latest episode with these exciting guests

🇿🇦 Steve Briggs, CEO of Isizwe from South Africa
🇨🇦 Bradley Fisher, CRO of Distributel from Canada
🇸🇪 Isak Finér, CRO of COS Systems from Sweden

and their host
🇺🇸 Nick Dinsmoor, CMO of Bonfire from the United States

 

sak Finér, CRO of COS Systems, discussing broadband connectivity on the Beer and Broadband podcast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or listen to the episode on Spotify.