{"id":91965,"date":"2025-08-25T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91965\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:12:11","slug":"colorado-bead-plan-rolls-the-dice-on-amazons-project-kuiper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91965\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado BEAD Plan Rolls the Dice on Amazon&#8217;s Project Kuiper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udca1<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0fCharter Not in Maine BEAD Plan\u25aa\ufe0fWhere\u2019s NBC on 39% Cap?\u25aa\ufe0fCalif.&#8217;s New BEAD Deadline: Oct. 2\u25aa\ufe0f5th Circuit Won\u2019t Rehear AT&amp;T Fine\u25aa\ufe0fCarr Takes the Mound in Yankee Stadium\u25aa\ufe0fKinetic Hit by Copper Theft<\/p>\n<p>BEAD:\u00a0Satellite Internet providers emerged as the big winners in\u00a0Colorado\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1dXpDpHqSNuGgZyo6IjVyCwVi-fuSQtWJT6OnOAwgg60\/edit?tab=t.0&amp;ref=broadbandbreakfast.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revised broadband expansion plan<\/a>\u00a0released Friday by the state\u2019s Broadband Office. The results were the best showing yet for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite Internet technology based on the\u00a0BEAD final proposals\u00a0released so far by other states, including\u00a0Louisiana, Virginia, and\u00a0West Virginia. Amazon\u2019s\u00a0Project Kuiper\u00a0and\u00a0SpaceX\u2019s Starlink\u00a0were tentatively awarded about half of the roughly\u00a090,000 homes and buildings\u00a0with either no service or speeds below 100\/20 megabits per second. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/broadbandbreakfast.com\/policyband\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Policyband<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited Access to Broadband Breakfast and Policyband<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo-1519922838705-9d6cb8bcfaea-65.jpeg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fiber providers captured 48% of the locations, while fixed wireless accounted for 2%. Colorado awarded\u00a0$25.3 million\u00a0to Project Kuiper to serve\u00a042,252 locations\u00a0\u2013 about 47% of all locations \u2013 at about\u00a0$600 per location, while\u00a0Starlink\u00a0received\u00a0$9.1 million\u00a0to serve\u00a05,400 locations\u00a0\u2013 about 6% of all locations \u2013 at about\u00a0$1,700 per location. Because fiber deployment come with high per-locations costs, Colorado awarded\u00a091% of its BEAD funds\u00a0to fiber Internet Service Providers (ISPs).\u00a0(More after paywall.)<\/p>\n<p>        For Unlimited Access, Join Breakfast Club<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#65a5d6\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udca1 \u25aa\ufe0fCharter Not in Maine BEAD Plan\u25aa\ufe0fWhere\u2019s NBC on 39% Cap?\u25aa\ufe0fCalif.&#8217;s New BEAD Deadline: Oct. 2\u25aa\ufe0f5th Circuit Won\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-91965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}