Nevada has released its provisional BEAD winners, with grants going to AT&T, Cox, Amazon's Project Kuiper and more. The largest sums, totaling $323 million, will go to local firms Sky Fiber Internet and Stimulus Technologies.
Nevada has released its final proposal for the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. The state provisionally awarded 19 service providers, with BEAD grants going to a mix of national and local service providers, and 80% of funds going toward fiber. According to a press release, these projects will deliver connectivity to "all of the more than 50,000 unserved and underserved locations in every county of Nevada."
The largest sums by far – $180.6 million and $142.5 million, respectively – will go to local firms Sky Fiber Internet and Stimulus Technologies of Nevada, to connect a combined 29,116 locations, according to Nevada's final proposal (downloadable here).
Other recipients include AT&T ($18.7 million), Cox ($22.9 million) and Amazon's Project Kuiper low-Earth (LEO) orbit satellite service ($14.5 million). See a full list of Nevada's provisional BEAD awards below:
Provisionally Awarded Provider | Total Award | Locations Served |
|---|---|---|
Amazon Kuiper | $14,489,500.00 | 4,891 |
Anthem Broadband of Nevada | $28,696,422.30 | 1,587 |
AT&T | $18,696,569.00 | 819 |
Beehive Broadband | $22,025,793.36 | 286 |
Commnet of Nevada | $50,622,426.00 | 5,136 |
Cox Communications | $22,905,090.00 | 3,273 |
Digital Technology Solutions (DTS Fiber) | $22,196,547.00 | 1,244 |
E4 Connect | $113,336.17 | 181 |
Filer Mutual Telephone Company (Truleap Technologies) | $3,015,843.77 | 75 |
ISP Industries (ISP.NET) | $383,202.93 | 16 |
Moapa Valley Telephone Company | $2,962,450.85 | 449 |
Reno Sparks Indian Colony | $4,000,000.00 | 162 |
Rural Telephone Company | $13,220,046.80 | 865 |
Satview Broadband | $4,001,127.00 | 76 |
SkyFiber Internet | $180,619,680.26 | 12,043 |
Stimulus Technologies of Nevada | $142,576,242.23 | 17,073 |
Valley Electric Association | $11,533,546.00 | 1,461 |
WeLink Communications | $10,021,508.00 | 1,277 |
Zito Nevada | $1,675,419.09 | 693 |
(Source: Nevada's Office of Science, Innovation and Technology)
In total, Nevada is awarding $553.7 million in deployment funds, which includes its full $416 million BEAD allocation, plus "additional funding from the Capital Projects Fund and the State Fiscal Recovery Fund," via the American Rescue Plan, said the state's Office of Science, Innovation and Technology (OSIT).
According to a press release, while most projects will be fiber-based, BEAD recipients will use a mix of technologies, including "fiber optic, hybrid-fiber-coax, licensed and unlicensed fixed wireless, and satellite technologies to meet the connectivity requirements of the BEAD program."
BEAD rollout
Nevada is now the third state to release its final proposal with provisional BEAD winners, following Louisiana and Delaware.
The NTIA completed its approval of initial proposals for the $42.5 billion BEAD program in November, in which each state and territory spelled out its plans for the program. States and territories are now working through next steps, including conducting and reviewing location challenge processes and sub-grantee evaluations to select and award ISPs.
Speaking on a recent webinar hosted by the World Broadband Association, Evan Feinman, BEAD program director at NTIA, said roughly a dozen states are in the process of selecting sub-grantees for the BEAD program.
While some in the industry have expressed concerns about BEAD's program requirements potentially preventing service providers from participating, so far, said Feinman, according to data seen by the NTIA, upwards of 90% of ISPs in each state are electing to participate in BEAD, with "some states approaching 100%."
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