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Bree Maki, executive director of Minnesota's Office of Broadband Development, said at the Mountain Connect conference in Denver that her office would support waivers to increase grant support if they made sense, even without a high chance of NTIA approval. She suggested NTIA could tap BEAD surplus funds to help address rising deployment costs and reach remaining unserved locations.
Minnesota's Office of Broadband Development executed its first BEAD subgrantee agreement on July 30, 2026, with East Central Energy for a fiber project expected to connect 3,750 locations between Minneapolis and Duluth. The state also approved the project's environmental review, and officials say 93 more contracts must be executed by October 2026.
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