So Far, Approved BEAD Plans Largely in Line with Public Drafts
NTIA has approved 29 state plans; see updated BEAD charts with Breakfast Club Membership
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2025 – The Commerce Department has approved broadband spending plans for 29 states under its $42.45 billion broadband expansion plan. So far, most of the approved plans don’t differ much from the draft results released by state broadband offices.
Kansas’s proportion of locations set to receive fiber fell by far the most of the approved states, a more than 16 percentage point drop. There was a corresponding increase in locations in line for fixed wireless, and a 34 percent drop in total deployment spending, the third largest of any state so far. The state’s total BEAD location count stayed roughly the same at about 26,600.
Fiber offers higher speeds and is considered more “future-proof” infrastructure, but costs more to deploy. The Trump administration has focused on cutting deployment costs and reversed an explicit Biden-era preference for fiber.
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