Texas BEAD Data Reveals Heavy Bidding from Satellite Providers

Report: LEO satellite now competes fiercely for BEAD funds - Broadband Communities

News A recent post on Pots and Pans by CCG Consulting President Doug Dawson gives some key insights into BEAD 2.0. By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Tennessee has seen a big spike in applications during BEAD’s new “Benefit of the Bargain” round compared to the program’s initial application phase. That takeaway was one of several in a recent post published by Pots and Pans, authored by CCG Consulting President Doug Dawson. “The low-orbit sa…

Texas BEAD Data Reveals Heavy Bidding from Satellite Providers

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2025 – Newly released data from Texas’s benefit of the bargain round revealed heavy involvement from the satellite industry.SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper collectively bid on 404,900 locations eligible for Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment funding in the Lone Star state. The duo’s bids represented over a quarter of the 1.45 million bids submitted by providers.SpaceX alone submitted bids to serve 244,596…