Updated Wednesday, December 10: 29 states and three territories have now had their BEAD Final Proposals approved by the NTIA.

The NTIA approved BEAD proposals for Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration approved a BEAD scoring tweak for Michigan late last month.

An interesting twist in the Michigan BEAD approach is that providers can get extra points for “scalability and resiliency.”
