Updated Mon. Feb. 9: NTIA approved BEAD proposals for Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Wednesday, December 3: We added California to our list of BEAD provisional awards. All 50 states have now announced provisional awards.

This comprehensive update details, as far as possible, the BEAD Benefit of the Bargain funding round for each state.

Idaho said it is committed to opening the BEAD funding application phase in the second quarter of this calendar year.

The NTIA award comes from the first round of the Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program, with more than $800M for digital equity plans.

The Idaho State Broadband Program Manager told us that Idaho challenged approximately 22,000 locations on the FCC broadband map but
