Connected Nation (CN) today unveiled its new interactive dashboard, the BEAD Tracker. The dashboard provides easy access to states’ plans for spending federal funds that were allocated through the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program’s Benefit of the Bargain round.
“The BEAD program is one of the nation’s most comprehensive initiatives to provide Americans broadband access,” said Tom Ferree, Chairman & CEO, CN. “Information about state BEAD plans is changing on a daily basis. Policymakers, internet service providers — in fact, all Americans — need to see how states plan to invest those funds. We built this dashboard in response to that need.”
CN’s BEAD Tracker (available here) compiles and aggregates state BEAD final proposals, highlighting how each state and U.S. territory intends to use their allocated federal BEAD dollars. That includes the total number of locations that will be served in each state, the distribution of the kind of broadband technology being funded, and how many locations will be served by each internet service provider (ISP).
In addition to seeing national statistics, the BEAD Tracker allows users to view information for individual states, as well as by broadband platform and even by individual ISPs.
“As more states update and finalize their plans, the BEAD Tracker will be updated to show how every BEAD dollar will be allocated, and additional features will be rolled out over the coming weeks,” said Colin Reilly, VP, Data Strategy & Technical Services, CN. “BEAD has been allocated more than 42 billion federal dollars to connect Americans to broadband service, and this will provide an opportunity for everyone to see how those dollars are being spent and the impact that the BEAD program will have for every community.”
