California Announces Grant Winners With BEAD Final Proposal

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2025 – California announced its tentative grant winners under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program Tuesday evening, the final state to post its bidding results.

The state is looking to use more than $1.5 billion of its $1.8 billion BEAD allocation on deployment projects, a larger proportion than almost any other state. The state also has more BEAD-funded locations than any other, with the total coming to more than 339,000.

California would get nearly 44 percent of those fiber, with another 41 percent in line for low-earth orbit satellite, largely from Amazon’s nascent and recently renamed Leo service. The roughly 15 percent remaining would get fixed wireless.