In the face of looming changes to BEAD, several state broadband chiefs said their offices were slowly moving ahead with the program.

Researchers at New York Law School found that more than half of locations originally eligible to receive federal broadband funding are no longer eligible.

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

Texas' satellite pilot program signals a broader shift in government to support alternatives to traditional broadband.

"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 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association called for the FCC to set broadband speeds as 100 Mbps for both downloads and uploads.

Some federal broadband competition policies may be working against each other leading to a state of confusion among those in the telecommunications landscape, according to new research.