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Lancaster Broadband Authority chair outlines shifting BEAD rules, timeline and local impacts
Summary
Keith Kidd, chair of the Lancaster Broadband Authority, briefed the Board on recent changes to the federal BEAD program, how Virginia must re-run bidding and mapping, and potential effects on unserved households and All Points Broadband deployments.
Lancaster County Broadband Authority Chairman Keith Kidd told the Board of Supervisors on June 26 that recent federal changes to the BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) program require states to revise bidding and mapping processes and may change which addresses are treated as unserved.
Kidd said the U.S. Commerce Department’s June guidance widens acceptable technologies to include coaxial, fixed wireless, and satellite, and requires states to select the lowest-cost proposals unless a jurisdiction elects to allow up to a 15% cost premium for faster or quicker deployments. “Under the new rules...coax, fiber, wireless FWA, and satellite are all acceptable,” Kidd said.
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