How To Free BEAD From Its Bureaucratic Shackles

The Trump administration has an opportunity to unshackle the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program from bureaucratic micromanagement and turbocharge investment of these funds in new broadband networks. Doing so will help to efficiently and quickly close the United States’s digital divide, which has lingered for decades and disproportionately impacted rural households. It will also empower millions of Americans with more robust broadband connectivity and spark enormous economic growth due to the clear multiplier effect of enhanced broadband investment on GDP and jobs. To accomplish this goal, the Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute proposes action items that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration should act on as soon as possible.