{"id":299206,"date":"2026-10-03T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299206\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:16:08","slug":"pa-broadband-development-authority-announces-bead-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299206\/","title":{"rendered":"PA BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ANNOUNCES BEAD GRANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority has announced over $400 million in Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Grants, and some of that money is coming to Indiana County.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first round of BEAD grants to be awarded to projects after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration approved more than $700 million in BEAD funding for Pennsylvania in April.\u00a0 The funding will support broadband projects that include a diverse mix of technologies including fiber and fixed wireless, for use in long-term leases; multifamily residential deployment; planning, design, and engineering; personnel costs; physical improvements; and network software upgrades.\u00a0 Projects that receive funding require a matching a minimum of 25% share of the total project cost.<\/p>\n<p>eCommunity Holdings will receive $84,164,947 for 14,571 fiber projects for 12 counties, including Indiana and Armstrong Counties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority has announced over $400 million in Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Grants, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-299206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}