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State Broadband Officials Offer Opinions on BEAD

Officials from Michigan, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C., offered opinions.

Ari Bertenthal

Nov 13, 2024 — 1 min read

Photo of Washington, D.C., State Broadband and Digital Equity Office Administrator Kevin Hughes, from the McKinsey website.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2024 – A global business management firm gathered broadband officials from three states and Washington, to assess the future of the largest federal broadband funding program – and where they see bumps in the road ahead.

“The timing issue that I see is the actual construction of these projects,” Michigan’s Chief Connectivity Officer Eric Frederick said in an interview with McKinsey and Company. “We have shortened construction seasons—the [Michigan] weather does not help any when it comes to building. [Having only] four years to build all these projects is going to be rough.”

McKinsey and Company, headquartered in New York, N.Y., is a business management consulting company operating in more than 130 cities across 65 countries.

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