Last June, the Biden administration announced how it will allocate BEAD funds to U.S. states and territories, with Texas and California receiving the largest sums at $3.3 billion and $1.86 billion, respectively. An additional 17 states will receive more than a billion dollars each for broadband deployment funding.
Now it’s on the states and their internet service providers (ISPs) to decide how these funds will be used to close the digital divide, and many are now asking another important question: Now that they can afford to extend their networks, who, as in literally who, is going to build them?
