The BEAD Program was a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation. Five years later, delays, politics, and a heavy-handed recalibration of satellite’s role mean many of its initial aims are unrealised.

Oregon’s rural internet expansion plans through the BEAD program have hit a roadblock this week as several ISPs decline ...

Funds totaling about $20 billion delayed under the federal rural broadband internet program will be subject to new guidance ...

On June 6, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) issued its long-awaited overhaul of the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. This new ...

But before the satellites even reached the launch site, Jeff Bezos’ rocket exploded into a massive fireball, its wreckage ...

Notably, the program almost immediately started to shift funding to tech billionaires promising to use satellite internet to ...

Senator Ted Cruz has written a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), warning it to pause its $42 billion broadband program. The program, Broadband Equity, ...

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program is underway and on track, and the 10-year initiative is expected to continue as planned when a new presidential administration takes over ...

In late August, the Congressional Research Service released a discussion paper identifying issues for the 119th Congress to address regarding the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program ...