Has anyone figured this out?
Other than free hardware for any resident at the location for 10 years, I can't find what else BEAD will pay for. What about installation? And are the monthly fees discounted? I assume it varies by state, but what's typically being done? The reason I ask is now that my state's proposed awards have been publicized in the form of a map, I can see where they are subsidizing fiber and where it will be Amazon Kuiper. This figures bigly into our future plans. Most areas will get fiber, and while they have 4 years to get it done, I think most of it will be done in the next 2 years. I'm not going to try and deploy fiber anywhere that is getting BEAD fiber. It's another matter where private money has been overbuilding cable companies in town that charge north of $100/mo. They also knew they wouldn't face BEAD fiber because the locations weren't unserved. But the areas where there were no bids to do fiber for below whatever the threshold was for LEO, probably you'd have to be a fool to do fiber in those areas with 100% your own money. So that's where we'd focus any WISP expansion or upgrades, and what we'd be competing with is subsidized Amazon Kuiper. If we'd be competing with a free satellite receiver, that's entirely possible. If it's 100 Mbps for $10/mo, that's another matter.
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