Texas BEAD Data Reveals Heavy Bidding from Satellite Providers
SpaceX bids on virtually all BEAD locations in the Lone Star state
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2025 – Newly released data from Texas’s benefit of the bargain round revealed heavy involvement from the satellite industry.
SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper collectively bid on 404,900 locations eligible for Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment funding in the Lone Star state. The duo’s bids represented over a quarter of the 1.45 million bids submitted by providers.
SpaceX alone submitted bids to serve 244,596 locations, making it an applicant for most, if not all, of Texas’s roughly 240,000 BEAD-eligible locations. The Elon Musk-backed satellite provider was the largest individual bidder in the state, beating out the next largest bidder by nearly 40,000 locations, according to a breakdown of state application data which surfaced Friday.
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