Yet, neither Congress nor the NTIA – the agency charged with overseeing the distribution of the funds – has enforced the letter of the law. Instead, even those states that did not lift “barriers that prevent municipally-owned or affiliated providers and rural electric co-ops from competing” are still receiving their share of BEAD funds, all but ensuring the lion’s share of BEAD funds in those states will go to the big monopoly providers.
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