North Carolina Receives NTIA Approval for Final BEAD Proposal
NTIA has approved North Carolina's BEAD final proposal, Gov. Josh Stein (D) said Monday. While the state was allocated $1.53 billion, its final proposal is for more than $300 million in deployment spending, he said. BEAD-funded projects should launch in mid-2026, he said, adding that $670 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding for broadband will bring connectivity to more than 250,000 locations by the end of next year.
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In a letter last week to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth, Stein urged that states be allowed latitude in how they use BEAD non-deployment dollars. He said North Carolina would use money to reach unserved or underserved locations that weren't identified in past FCC broadband maps, with more than 21,000 such locations in the state. It would also like to use non-deployment funding for such needs as infrastructure resiliency and redundancy, workforce development and cybersecurity, he said.