How ACP's lapse is impacting state broadband plans

Light Reading's Nicole Ferraro and Jake Varn, associate manager with Pew's Broadband Access Initiative, discuss how the lapse of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) in May is now impacting states' plans to expand broadband access through federal broadband programs, including the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program and Digital Equity Act. They also talk about various options for addressing affordability without the ACP, and the roadblocks on those paths as well.