Nevada’s final proposal details how it will use the more than $416 million in allocated BEAD funding to connect 43,715 homes and businesses.
The Final Proposal, which Nevada is ready to submit to NTIA, will include the provisional winners of the state’s first round of BEAD funding.
Nevada will tap other funding sources besides BEAD as it makes BEAD awards, said Broadband Director Brian Mitchell.
Nevada’s $250M Zayo middle mile award will go toward a 2,500-mile open access fiber network. Arizona is also funding the middle mile.
BEAD proposals include two volumes. While many states have had volume 1 approved, only a few have had volume 2 approved.
The rules for how Capital Projects Fund money can be used are less “prescriptive” than those for the BEAD program, notes Pew. Therefore,
A broadband map bill introduced in the Senate would not delay initial state allocations but would use a later version of the
The Capital Projects Fund awarded money to each state that could be used for infrastructure investment, including broadband. Four states that
Broadband Equity Access and Deployment or BEAD planning grants are to enable states to put together plans for how they will award
Uprise Fiber is a three-year-old company based in Reno. It will contribute $9 million to a- fiber broadband network it will build in
Cox and Henderson, Nevada are expanding their smart city partnership to include collaboration on smart water meters and smart parking.
A USDA South Carolina ReConnect award went to TruVista Communications. It was a $9 million grant to deploy broadband. Additional awards were made to