NTIA Approves Louisiana Final BEAD Proposal
It's the first state to reach the deployment stage of the $42.5 billion program.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2025 – It’s official: Louisiana can finally break ground on its plans to end the digital divide.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration approved Monday the state’s final spending plan for more than $1.3 billion in federal funding for broadband deployment. It’s the first state to get such approval under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, which allocated $42.5 billion among states and territories to expand infrastructure to every unconnected home and business in the nation.
“Louisiana has an outstanding plan to close the digital divide. Today it can put that plan into action and start building the networks that will connect everyone in the state,” NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson said in a statement.
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