NTIA Approves Texas' Final BEAD Proposal
NTIA said Thursday it has approved Texas' final BEAD proposal, two days after the agency's first announcement of final proposal approvals, which covered 18 states and territories (see 2511180007). While Texas' final proposal wasn't due until Friday, it was submitted nearly a month early due to the state's "diligent work to deliver a compliant, high-quality application," NTIA said. The agency "was then able to grant expeditious approval, shaving months off Texans’ wait time for broadband access." While Texas was allocated $3.3 billion in BEAD, the state's final proposal uses $1.3 billion of those funds for deployment, NTIA noted.
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The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts said the state's BEAD plan would cover about 123,000 unserved and underserved locations by fiber, about 65,000 with low earth orbit satellite and about 54,000 through fixed wireless.