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North Dakota Nearing 100 Percent Fiber Connectivity – How is Your State Doing?
With the incoming Trump administration and the ascendance of GOP leaders taking aim at key aspects of broadband expansion initiatives embedded in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, industry insiders expect the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program to likely get a major facelift in the coming months.
GOP Senate leaders have signaled they will push for BEAD to be scaled back or reconfigured.
Meanwhile, like snow falling quietly across a prairie, an impressive milestone is inching its way to completion in North Dakota. In one of the most rural parts of the U.S., the Peace Garden State is close to being the first in the nation in which every home and business has (or will soon have) access to fiber service, the gold standard of Internet connectivity.
