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  "description": "BEAD applications due August 1 in the state that pushed for looser rules.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-05-16T22:20:38.000Z",
  "site": "https://broadbandbreakfast.com",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, May 16, 2025 – Texas has formally opened the door to more than $3.8 billion in broadband infrastructure funding, launching its application window Thursday under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program and the Texas Match Assistance Program.\n\nThe state was allocated $3.3 billion in BEAD funding and is contributing an additional $500 million through TMAP, which offers state support to help applicants meet matching fund requirements – a critical boost for smaller providers and cooperatives.\n\nAccording to a notice released by the Texas Broadband Development Office, applications will be accepted from June 12, 2025 through August 1, 2025. Applicants must register through the state’s BEAD portal before the deadline.\n\nThe launch comes as Texas officials have _repeatedly urged_ the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which oversees BEAD, to eliminate the program’s low-cost pricing requirement, preference for fiber, and prevailing wage mandates.\n\nTexas Comptroller**Glenn Hegar** sent a letter to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman**Ted Cruz** , R-Texas, in February, calling for the changes.\n\nSince then, the state has offered to _return $1 billion_ of its $3.3 billion BEAD allocation to the U.S. Treasury and halted its _$55.6 million digital equity program_, before the federal government rescinded Digital Equity Act grants, to avoid “applicants investing significant time and resources.”\n\nNow, with the NTIA expected to issue revised BEAD guidance in the coming weeks, the state has left the door open to making changes to the solicitation. The NOFA states that any federal “programmatic revisions” will be incorporated into the grant process via an addendum, potentially shifting the rules midstream.\n\nQuestions about _the NOFA_ are due by May 29, 2025 through the state’s _official website_.",
  "title": "Texas Opens $3.8 Billion Broadband Grant Window",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T03:29:27.376Z"
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