West Virginia BEAD Plan Approved

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2025 – West Virginia’s final spending plan under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program has been approved by the Commerce Department, the state’s governor announced Friday.

The approved plan would spend $545 million on broadband deployment to about 73,044 locations, according to a release from the office of West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R). 

That’s a reduction of more than $78 million from the state’s tentative plan posted in September, which was mostly fiber, and about 650 fewer locations. Broadband Breakfast reached out to the state’s broadband office for a copy of the approved plan and location-level data, which wasn’t online Friday morning.