South Carolina signs four BEAD subgrant agreements after cutting recipients to 8 ISPs

Providers named: ZiTEL, TruVista Communications, AT&T, Comcast, Amazon Leo, Starlink, Charter Communications, Intus Smartcities

What this means for BEAD compliance

ZiTEL, TruVista Communications, AT&T (BellSouth), and Comcast as newly executed South Carolina BEAD subgrantees, and the eight other providers (including Amazon Leo, Starlink, Charter, and Intus Smartcities) whose projects were shifted to state/ARPA funding and removed from federal BEAD obligations.

Execution of subgrant agreements for ZiTEL, TruVista, AT&T, and Comcast triggers full active_deployment compliance obligations, including construction permitting, procurement and cost/price documentation, Buy America sourcing, SCRM/covered-equipment prohibitions, and eventual performance and expenditure reporting once construction begins. These four ISPs must now stand up contractor oversight, conflict-of-interest controls, and internal control systems ahead of first disbursement and periodic BEAD reporting. The eight ISPs moved to state/ARPA funding are released from federal BEAD-specific obligations (NEPA, SCRM certifications, PERF speed/latency benchmarks) for those reallocated projects, though they remain subject to whatever conditions attach to the state/ARPA vehicle instead.

Analysis by BeadComply Compliance Intelligence, grounded in the BEAD requirements registry.