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Pavlov Media outlines Illinois BEED build plan, seeks local support in DeWitt County
Summary
Pavlov Media presented to the DeWitt County Board a BEED-focused build plan that would target state-designated project-area units for broadband grants, explain funding rules and provider deconfliction, and said the company will pursue both grant-eligible and nearby noneligible homes as funding and logistics allow.
Mark Sheldon, vice president for government relations at Pavlov Media, told the DeWitt County Board the company plans to pursue Illinois’ Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEED) program grants to build out service to BEED-eligible locations in DeWitt County.
Sheldon said the state’s preliminary BEED map divides areas into project-area units (represented at the meeting as colored hexagons) that will typically contain 20–50 homes eligible for BEED grants. He explained that eligible homes are generally those with current service below 100 megabits per second and that each eligible home will be awarded to a single provider under the BEED process, which the state will later confirm with the U.S.…
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