The National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued a waiver notice, granting states an extension on submitting their final broadband deployment plans.

"At this late stage, major changes would undermine our work and delay deployment by years," legislators said of proposed changes to the BEAD program.

Louisiana's broadband chief says the governor's letter is intended to "provide more flexibility for states to choose their own path."

Trump's pause on 2021 infrastructure bill funding has made uncertain the future of broadband expansion projects led by the states.

A new cross-agency group in Maryland aims to glean efficiency from broadband projects as the state collects the remainder of its federal BEAD funding.

The efficacy of local government permitting processes will be critical to deploying broadband projects, according to a new paper.