NRECA Urges Coops to Apply for Federal Broadband Funding
The federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program is offering up to $42.5 billion in funding to deploy or upgrade broadband networks to increase access to high-speed internet service in rural areas. NRECA is encouraging coops to begin evaluating the new rules for the grants, noting that if coops do not apply and win it to serve their areas, “someone else will.”