South Carolina Releases Revised Draft of Final BEAD Plan
South Carolina released the revised draft of its final BEAD plan for public comment Friday. Comments are due Sept. 26 to the state's broadband office so it can meet its Sept. 30 deadline to submit its plan to NTIA (see 2509080012). The office said it doesn't expect NTIA approval until Q1 of 2026.
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The state plans to award a roughly even split of its deployment funding to fiber and low earth orbit satellites. About 3% will go to hybrid fiber-coaxial providers. ZiTEL will receive the greatest allocation, about $8.1 million to deploy fiber, while Amazon's Kuiper will receive about $5.3 million to deploy LEO satellites to roughly 43% of the state's BEAD-eligible broadband serviceable locations.