Map Released for Missouri’s Potential BEAD Service Areas
The map will help providers better understand BEAD service obligations

The map will help providers better understand BEAD service obligations
Oct. 22, 2024 - Missouri’s Office of Broadband Development, in an effort to inform potential funding recipients, released a map Monday of areas in need of increased broadband service.
Subgrantees under the federal government’s $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program will be able to use the map to more completely understand their responsibilities associated with the application areas for which they will be awarded funding.
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