We still don’t know for sure when we’ll start seeing shovels in the ground for BEAD. But rural broadband providers aren’t pausing their fiber deployments, and they don’t want to see BEAD bidders moving into the rural providers' territory when the time comes. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), a trade group representing more than 900 rural electric cooperatives, has urged the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which oversees BEAD, to require states to establish an expedited “true-up” process for BEAD eligible locations before they approve final awards. True-up is the process of reconciling estimated or inaccurate amounts with actual up-to-date figures. https://lnkd.in/g-WDtinP #ftth #fttx #fibertothehome #fiberopticnetwork #fiberopticnewtorks #fiberopticcable #telecom #telecommunications #ftthinstallation #fiberoptic #fiberopticsplicing #network #broadband #datacenters #datacenter
