Benton Chief Warns of BEAD Going ‘Off Track’
NTIA's management of BEAD under the agency's revised rules is "no way to run a railroad, and no way to connect Americans to the fast, affordable, reliable internet we need," wrote Revati Prasad, executive director of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, in a blog post Monday. Citing concerns from public interest advocates about another possible round of subgrantee selections, Prasad warned that the agency is going "off track" amid claims that it's requiring several states to revisit "some of the most expensive locations to connect and to do so in 72 hours."
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Congress "created the program to fix a persistent problem that was not being solved by the private sector," Prasad wrote. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick "is not securing a good bargain" by "driving down BEAD outlays." NTIA’s "consistent lack of transparency and clear direction is not helping matters," she added.