National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) — BEAD Program

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Distributing $42.45 billion in broadband construction grants to states and territories

For two decades, 'fiber to every home' has been promised and postponed. The fiber itself was rarely the bottleneck. The constraint was the gateway hardware—the box on a customer's wall that turns light pulses into Wi-Fi—which stayed too expensive for carriers to hand out free with a service plan. On April 30, 2026, Broadcom announced the chipsets designed to break that constraint: a 10-gigabit passive optical network gateway system-on-chip and two paired Wi-Fi 8 radios, all engineered for mass-market price points.

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