Texas Requests BEAD Project Area Units Comment

August 13, 2024 – The Texas Broadband Development Office released a request for information Thursday on the use of predefined project area units used to design potential projects for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program. 

Under BEAD guidelines, states may solicit competitive BEAD proposals on a per-location basis or they can introduce a variety of predefined project area units to solicit proposals for. These predefined area units can be defined by census blocks, municipalities or counties.