en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, the Texas Broadband Development Office (BDO) announced the final sub-recipient agreement list for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Seventeen providers will receive a total of approximately $1.07 billion to connect over 208,000 underserved or unserved locations across the state. Texas is one of the few states to publicly release its final BEAD award list, following a similar move by New York in April this year.

Telecompetitor compared the final award list with the provisional awards announced in October last year, finding that the total amount decreased from approximately $1.271 billion to about $1.068 billion, a reduction of roughly $203 million (about 84% of the provisional total); the planned connected locations dropped from 240,205 to 208,873, a decrease of 31,332 (about 87% of the provisional total). This discrepancy is reflected in the BDO press release: the first paragraph states that the BEAD program will "provide broadband coverage to over 208,000 unserved and underserved locations in Texas," while the second paragraph says it "aims to connect over 240,000 unserved and underserved locations."

Five providers that received provisional awards did not appear on the final list: AMA Communications LLC ($1,385,518), Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services LLC (Amazon Leo) ($1,145,659), Astound Broadband ($166,100,901), Resound Networks LLC ($23,127,233), and Thrive Broadband ($1,483,986). The total provisional awards for these five entities amounted to $193,243,297, accounting for nearly $199 million of the $203 million reduction from provisional to final awards in Texas.

Among the 17 providers on the final list, 12 saw no significant changes in their awards, while the remaining five showed notable differences. USConnect Holdings Inc. (operating as Livingston Telephone Co.) saw its final award increase by over 400%, from $8,536,703 in provisional awards to $36,634,389, with planned connected locations rising from 1,526 to 3,928. Rural Telecommunications of America Inc.'s award decreased by more than two-thirds, from $48,392,725 to $15,803,008, with planned connected locations dropping from 5,977 to 3,314. 4 IP Technology and Media LLC (operating as Nexstream)—the largest winner this time—saw its final award reduced by approximately $6 million, from $407,439,361 to $401,831,807, serving 313 fewer locations. Lyte Fiber LLC's final award decreased by about $3 million, from $119,069,421 to $115,992,900, but planned to serve 227 more locations. AMG Technology Investment Group LLC (operating as Nextlink Internet) saw its final award increase by about $3 million, from $39,308,137 to $42,161,852, but planned to serve 2,813 fewer locations. Telecompetitor contacted the Texas BDO regarding the differences between provisional and final awards but received no response by press time.

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