Wisconsin is owed over $300 million in delayed Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment Program funding, according to state and federal officials.
Gov. Tony Evers and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) sent a joint letter last week to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Administrator Arielle Roth, urging the NTIA to issued delayed funds.
“Thanks to our efforts as a state, including approving the largest state investment in broadband in Wisconsin’s history, more than 410,000 homes and businesses will have access to new or improved internet service, and when the federal government jumpstarted this work with the BEAD program to help states get even more folks connected, our agency leaders got right to work,” Evers said in a statement.
“Our partners at the Public Service Commission have followed BEAD deployment efforts by the book, and when the (Donald) Trump administration moved the goal post for accessing critical funds, the state did not hesitate in its work to adapt our approach.”
As a result of the efforts, Wisconsin was awarded more than $1 billion through BEAD last year. However, not all the funds have been paid out.
