Three years ago, Congress appropriated over 42 billion dollars to build out the nation's broadband system so that every one could have access to internet resources. In mid June, the Commerce department announced it was revamping the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment or BEAD program to focus on outcomes and not process and finally get the money flowing to projects. Here with insight on what that means for citizens and network providers is the CEO of the trade group U.S. Telecom, Jonathan Spalter.
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