SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell says Starlink is very interested in BEAD

At the Mountain Connect conference, one of Elon Musk’s top lieutenants—Gwynne Shotwell, president and COO of SpaceX—regaled the audience with exciting stories about rocket launches, and she also touted SpaceX’s Starlink broadband service as a great way to close the digital divide in hard-to-reach rural locations. Shotwell also revealed SpaceX was working with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on some “structural elements” to determine if SpaceX will bid for Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) projects. Despite Musk's recent bashing of BEAD, Shotwell said SpaceX is “very interested in participating” in BEAD.