National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) — BEAD Program

Built World

54 of 56 state and territory final proposals approved; program entering active construction phase; soliciting public input on $21 billion in estimated savings from 2025 program reforms

For two decades, 'fiber to every home' was promised and postponed — not because of the fiber, but because gateway hardware stayed too expensive for carriers to include free. On April 30, 2026, Broadcom announced chipsets designed to change that: a 10-gigabit passive optical network (PON) gateway system-on-chip and two paired Wi-Fi 8 radios, all engineered for mass-market price points.

Updated May 31