NTIA Confirms RDOF Defaults After June 6 Excluded From BEAD Eligibility

National Telecommunications and Information Administration Chief of Staff Brooke Donilon confirmed that locations recently defaulted on in the Federal Communications Commission's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund will not be eligible to be included in NTIA's Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program. “At some point we just had to draw a line and get to the 'Benefit of the Bargain' program,” Donilon said. “We can’t let perfect be the enemy of the good here. We have to get communities connected. We could spend the next three years debating the policy cuts, or we could actually be productive, roll up our sleeves, and get things done.”